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Eating Animal Blood

Genesis 9:4 ESV / 223 helpful votes
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Leviticus 17:14 ESV / 212 helpful votes
For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

Acts 15:20 ESV / 179 helpful votes
But should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

Leviticus 3:17 ESV / 141 helpful votes
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”

Acts 15:29 ESV / 135 helpful votes
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.”

Deuteronomy 12:23 ESV / 133 helpful votes
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

Leviticus 17:10 ESV / 113 helpful votes
“If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.

Deuteronomy 12:16 ESV / 92 helpful votes
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

Mark 7:18-19 ESV / 87 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 80 helpful votes
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. 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. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. …

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 72 helpful votes
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Leviticus 17:11 ESV / 66 helpful votes
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 60 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Mark 7:14-15 ESV / 60 helpful votes
And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”

Deuteronomy 14:21 ESV / 55 helpful votes
“You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Acts 15:1-41 ESV / 54 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. So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.” …

Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 54 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. …

Romans 14:21 ESV / 48 helpful votes
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Leviticus 11:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes
“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

Leviticus 7:23 ESV / 43 helpful votes
“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat.

Leviticus 19:26 ESV / 42 helpful votes
“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.

Luke 11:11-13 ESV / 41 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!”

Mark 7:19 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Leviticus 17:10-14 ESV / 40 helpful votes
“If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood. “Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

1 Corinthians 10:1-33 ESV / 38 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. …

Isaiah 66:3 ESV / 37 helpful votes
“He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig’s blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;

Colossians 2:16 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 36 helpful votes
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Romans 14:14 ESV / 34 helpful votes
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

Daniel 1:12 ESV / 34 helpful votes
“Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Leviticus 7:26-27 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places. Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”

Leviticus 7:23-24 ESV / 33 helpful votes
“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat. The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it.

1 Corinthians 10:25 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.

Leviticus 11:1-30 ESV / 31 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. …

Acts 10:9-16 ESV / 30 helpful votes
The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” …

Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 29 helpful votes
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. …

Isaiah 11:6-9 ESV / 29 helpful votes
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Leviticus 7:26 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— …

Deuteronomy 14:1-29 ESV / 27 helpful votes
“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. “You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. …

Leviticus 17:1-16 ESV / 26 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the people of Israel and say to them, This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. If any one of the house of Israel kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp, and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the Lord in front of the tabernacle of the Lord, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people. This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices that they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the Lord, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the Lord. …

Genesis 1:29-31 ESV / 26 helpful votes
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 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.

Proverbs 12:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Hebrews 9:22 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Leviticus 22:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes
He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the Lord.’

Leviticus 17:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And every person who eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.

Genesis 8:20 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 4:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering,

Acts 15:28-29 ESV / 21 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.”

1 Timothy 4:1-5 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

Romans 14:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

Deuteronomy 15:23 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Leviticus 17:13-14 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

Genesis 9:3-4 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Revelation 1:1 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,

Proverbs 6:16-17 ESV / 19 helpful votes
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

1 Samuel 14:32 ESV / 19 helpful votes
The people pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood.

Genesis 9:1-29 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. …

Genesis 4:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.

1 Timothy 4:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

Romans 14:3 ESV / 18 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 8:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.

Acts 21:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes
But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

Acts 10:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes
But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” …

Ezekiel 4:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes
“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.

Mark 7:14-23 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) …

Genesis 9:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.

Daniel 1:1-21 ESV / 16 helpful votes
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god. Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans. The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king. …

Leviticus 17:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And the priest shall throw the blood on the altar of the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

Genesis 1:21 ESV / 16 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.

Acts 10:44-47 ESV / 15 helpful votes
While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared, “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

Matthew 15:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?

Deuteronomy 12:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire.

Leviticus 17:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.

Leviticus 17:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes
This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices that they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the Lord, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the Lord.

1 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

1 Corinthians 8:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

Luke 9:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

Leviticus 17:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 14 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.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 14 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 Corinthians 8:4-7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— 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. However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Acts 10:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 13 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.

Deuteronomy 14:3-21 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you. …

Leviticus 17:10-16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood. “Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off. …

Leviticus 11:39-40 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening, and whoever eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:4-8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

Genesis 7:1-3 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

Genesis 1:24-25 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 12 helpful votes
(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

Acts 15:19-21 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”

Acts 11:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. …

Luke 13:1-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

Mark 7:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,

Genesis 7:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,

Revelation 5:6-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,

Aslan International Ministry – Early Marriage

Aslan International Ministry –

Early Marriage

1 Corinthians 7:32-34 ESV / 23 helpful votes
I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.

Luke 1:47-49 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. …

Numbers 31:18 ESV / 20 helpful votes
But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 17 helpful votes
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

1 Corinthians 7:7-8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another. To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 10 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.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 10 helpful votes
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:12-15 ESV / 10 helpful votes
To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 10 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.”

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 9 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.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

John 3:1-36 ESV / 9 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. …

Mark 10:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Isaiah 62:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Colossians 3:18-19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Genesis 1:27-28 ESV / 7 helpful votes
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.”

Ephesians 5:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

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 30:18-19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.

Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 6 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.

Revelation 19:7-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 5 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.

1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Luke 2:1-52 ESV / 5 helpful votes
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. …

Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

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

Genesis 2:22-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 4 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.

Ephesians 5:25-33 ESV / 4 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, …

Ephesians 5:22-23 ESV / 4 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.

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Let all that you do be done in love.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

John 15:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Mark 10:6-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Isaiah 54:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.

Song of Solomon 4:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

Genesis 1:1-29 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. …

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 3 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 John 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Colossians 3:13-14 ESV / 3 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. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 3 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, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, …

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 3 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 16:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

1 Corinthians 7:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

1 Corinthians 7:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
(but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Song of Solomon 8:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

Proverbs 3:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

1 John 4:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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

1 Peter 3:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,

James 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

James 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 2 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.

Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

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

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Aslan International Ministry – Desires Of Your Heart

Desires Of Your Heart

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 1,033 helpful votes
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Matthew 6:21 ESV / 430 helpful votes
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Psalm 37:5 ESV / 418 helpful votes
Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.

Proverbs 16:1-3 ESV / 358 helpful votes
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit. Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 351 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Psalm 20:4 ESV / 345 helpful votes
May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans!

Psalm 37:1-40 ESV / 313 helpful votes
Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. …

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 286 helpful votes
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 278 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Psalm 21:2 ESV / 250 helpful votes
You have given him his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

Romans 8:28 ESV / 243 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.

Proverbs 3:5-8 ESV / 214 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 205 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 200 helpful votes
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Matthew 7:8 ESV / 193 helpful votes
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 173 helpful votes
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 145:19 ESV / 146 helpful votes
He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 145 helpful votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 121 helpful votes
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 40:8 ESV / 112 helpful votes
I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 111 helpful votes
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 107 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 105 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.”

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 104 helpful votes
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 103 helpful votes
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

John 15:7 ESV / 101 helpful votes
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 99 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 96 helpful votes
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 94 helpful votes
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 92 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 88 helpful votes
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Mark 11:23 ESV / 88 helpful votes
Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 81 helpful votes
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 80 helpful votes
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 79 helpful votes
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 76 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 17:22 ESV / 75 helpful votes
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

John 3:16 ESV / 74 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.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 73 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.

Luke 12:34 ESV / 73 helpful votes
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 73 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 72 helpful votes
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 72 helpful votes
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Psalm 24:4 ESV / 72 helpful votes
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 72 helpful votes
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Isaiah 26:8 ESV / 70 helpful votes
In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.

Psalm 94:19 ESV / 70 helpful votes
When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 68 helpful votes
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Luke 6:45 ESV / 68 helpful votes
The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV / 67 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.

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 67 helpful votes
With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!

Psalm 27:14 ESV / 67 helpful votes
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 66 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 John 5:14-15 ESV / 64 helpful votes
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 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.

Isaiah 58:14 ESV / 63 helpful votes
Then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

Job 27:10 ESV / 63 helpful votes
Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 59 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 8:15 ESV / 58 helpful votes
As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 57 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.

Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 55 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?’ …

Job 22:26 ESV / 55 helpful votes
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 Samuel 2:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

Philippians 1:21 ESV / 51 helpful votes
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 49 helpful votes
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 48 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.

1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 48 helpful votes
“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.

Philippians 2:12-16 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

James 1:19-20 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 45 helpful votes
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. …

Psalm 36:1-12 ESV / 45 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. Of David, the servant of the Lord. Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated. The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good. He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil. Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. …

Psalm 38:1-22 ESV / 44 helpful votes
A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering. O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath! For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me. There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin. For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness, …

1 John 5:14 ESV / 42 helpful votes
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 42 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.

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 39 helpful votes
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 39 helpful votes
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Jeremiah 17:7 ESV / 38 helpful votes
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.

John 3:16-20 ESV / 37 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

Matthew 6:7 ESV / 37 helpful votes
“And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Philippians 4:10 ESV / 36 helpful votes
I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity.

Psalm 9:1 ESV / 36 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. …

James 1:6-10 ESV / 34 helpful votes
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.

John 5:24 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

Proverbs 23:26 ESV / 34 helpful votes
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

Luke 1:45 ESV / 33 helpful votes
And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”

Colossians 1:11-12 ESV / 32 helpful votes
May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

Hebrews 6:13-14 ESV / 31 helpful votes
For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.”

Psalm 66:18-20 ESV / 31 helpful votes
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!

Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 31 helpful votes
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.

John 15:5 ESV / 30 helpful votes
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Luke 16:10 ESV / 30 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.

Isaiah 58:13-14 ESV / 25 helpful votes
“If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly; then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Matthew 23:12 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Isaiah 40:28 ESV / 23 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 91:14 ESV / 23 helpful votes
“Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Colossians 1:25-29 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

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Desire

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 289 helpful votes
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Proverbs 10:24 ESV / 157 helpful votes
What the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 120 helpful votes
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 119 helpful votes
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Proverbs 2:3-5 ESV / 100 helpful votes
Yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 90 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.

Luke 10:42 ESV / 77 helpful votes
But one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

Romans 13:13-14 ESV / 67 helpful votes
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Psalm 145:19 ESV / 61 helpful votes
He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.

Lamentations 3:25 ESV / 56 helpful votes
The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Hosea 6:6 ESV / 50 helpful votes
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 49 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 46 helpful votes
With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!

Psalm 119:133 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.

Luke 6:21 ESV / 35 helpful votes
“Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Proverbs 8:34 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 33 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. …

Philippians 3:12-14 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 2:12-16 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Matthew 9:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Psalm 119:20 ESV / 31 helpful votes
My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.

Isaiah 26:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes
In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.

Proverbs 4:27 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Lamentations 3:26 ESV / 28 helpful votes
It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Psalm 40:8 ESV / 28 helpful votes
I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Psalm 37:7 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

Psalm 34:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes
The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Song of Solomon 7:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes
I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.

Matthew 16:23 ESV / 23 helpful votes
But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”

Proverbs 19:1-29 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool. Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way. When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord. Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend. A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape. …

Romans 10:1 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

Psalm 118:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord.

Psalm 42:1-11 ESV / 21 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation …

Luke 20:46 ESV / 19 helpful votes
“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,

1 Peter 1:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Mark 11:24-25 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Isaiah 26:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes
My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Psalm 94:19 ESV / 18 helpful votes
When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.

James 4:1-17 ESV / 17 helpful votes
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? …

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Proverbs 8:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Hebrews 10:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Lamentations 3:41 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

Psalm 69:32 ESV / 15 helpful votes
When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.

Genesis 4:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 14 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.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 14 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. …

Romans 2:6-8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

Habakkuk 3:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
O Lord, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O Lord, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.

Psalm 143:1-12 ESV / 14 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness! Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you. For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead. Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled. I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands. …

Psalm 70:4 ESV / 14 helpful votes
May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!”

Romans 13:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

John 15:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Psalm 86:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.

Psalm 69:3 ESV / 13 helpful votes
I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

Psalm 40:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.

Psalm 33:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield.

Psalm 27:1-14 ESV / 13 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 20:1-21:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you! May he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion! May he remember all your offerings and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans! May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill all your petitions! …

Exodus 20:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Romans 8:25 ESV / 12 helpful votes
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

John 14:8-31 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves. “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. …

John 9:31 ESV / 12 helpful votes
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.

John 3:27 ESV / 12 helpful votes
John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.

Matthew 14:1-36 ESV / 12 helpful votes
At that time Herod the tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus, and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.” For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because John had been saying to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet. …

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. …

Habakkuk 2:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.

Jeremiah 29:1-32 ESV / 12 helpful votes
These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had departed from Jerusalem. The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. It said: “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. …

Isaiah 55:1-13 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. …

Isaiah 8:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

Song of Solomon 6:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Before I was aware, my desire set me among the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.

Ecclesiastes 6:10-12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he. The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man? For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

Proverbs 15:29-16:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous. The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones. The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence. The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor. …

Psalm 130:1-131:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; …

Psalm 122:1-123:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together, to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David. …

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! …

Psalm 107:9-108:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things. Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons, for they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High. So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. …

Psalm 105:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Psalm 72:1-73:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Of Solomon. Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son! May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice! Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness! May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor! May they fear you while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations! …

Psalm 68:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Summon your power, O God, the power, O God, by which you have worked for us.

Psalm 65:1-66:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song. Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed. O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come. When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions. Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple! 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; …

Psalm 62:1-63:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. …

Psalm 37:34 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Wait for the Lord and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on when the wicked are cut off.

Psalm 25:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes
My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

Psalm 9:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 11 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 11:1-40 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. …

Galatians 5:19-25 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. …

Psalm 77:1-81:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me. In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted. When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I consider the days of old, the years long ago. …

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. …

John 4:1-6:71 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. …

Mark 10:1-12:44 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. …

Proverbs 3:1-7:27 ESV / 10 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 84:1-88:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. …

Psalm 10:1-18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Why, O Lord, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised. For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord. In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.” His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them. …

2 Kings 2:19-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Now the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees, but the water is bad, and the land is unfruitful.” He said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him. Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it and said, “Thus says the Lord, I have healed this water; from now on neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it.”

Aslan International Ministry – Confessing Sin

Confessing Sin

1 John 1:9 ESV / 41 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James 5:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

James 1:13-15 ESV / 10 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. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Hebrews 8:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 8 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. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

John 20:19-24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.” …

Exodus 4:10-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”

1 John 1:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

John 9:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.

John 5:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

Matthew 9:6-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.” And he rose and went home. When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

Hebrews 10:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

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.

Matthew 6:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Genesis 3:11-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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

Luke 14:15-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!” But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many. And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’ …

Isaiah 44:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfill all my purpose’; saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”

Psalm 103:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Ephesians 5:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Romans 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”

Isaiah 58:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.

Romans 4:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful
And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,

Aslan International Ministry – Complaining

Complaining

Philippians 2:14 ESV / 4,976 helpful votes
Do all things without grumbling or questioning,

James 5:9 ESV / 3,538 helpful votes
Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.

1 Peter 4:9 ESV / 3,244 helpful votes
Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.

1 Corinthians 10:10 ESV / 3,209 helpful votes
Nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 3,032 helpful votes
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2,808 helpful votes
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2,422 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.

Exodus 16:8 ESV / 2,324 helpful votes
And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the Lord.”

Psalm 106:25 ESV / 1,962 helpful votes
They murmured in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the Lord.

Philippians 2:14-16 ESV / 1,860 helpful votes
Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Philippians 2:12-16 ESV / 1,764 helpful votes
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 1,732 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.

Philippians 2:14-15 ESV / 1,605 helpful votes
Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Job 2:10 ESV / 1,589 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.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 1,501 helpful votes
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Philippians 2:15 ESV / 1,499 helpful votes
That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Numbers 11:1 ESV / 1,444 helpful votes
And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 1,403 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.”

Genesis 3:12 ESV / 1,356 helpful votes
The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”

Numbers 11:1-4 ESV / 1,355 helpful votes
And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp. Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down. So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burned among them. Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat!

Philippians 4:11-12 ESV / 1,251 helpful votes
Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 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.

Exodus 15:24 ESV / 1,224 helpful votes
And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Exodus 16:7 ESV / 1,221 helpful votes
And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against the Lord. For what are we, that you grumble against us?”

Numbers 11:1-35 ESV / 1,198 helpful votes
And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp. Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down. So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burned among them. Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. …

Isaiah 53:7 ESV / 1,194 helpful votes
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

Numbers 21:4-6 ESV / 1,165 helpful votes
From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.” Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.

1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 1,120 helpful votes
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;

Exodus 15:22 ESV / 1,099 helpful votes
Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 1,090 helpful votes
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 1,083 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 6:61 ESV / 1,079 helpful votes
But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this?

Numbers 14:27 ESV / 1,076 helpful votes
“How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.

Philippians 4:11-13 ESV / 1,061 helpful votes
Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 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.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 1,060 helpful votes
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

James 4:1-3 ESV / 1,047 helpful votes
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Job 1:22 ESV / 1,045 helpful votes
In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 1,043 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.

Proverbs 19:3 ESV / 1,042 helpful votes
When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord.

Philippians 4:11 ESV / 983 helpful votes
Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

Philippians 4:4 ESV / 954 helpful votes
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.

Romans 1:21 ESV / 935 helpful votes
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

James 1:17 ESV / 933 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.

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 909 helpful votes
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Exodus 14:11-12 ESV / 896 helpful votes
They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Jude 1:16 ESV / 893 helpful votes
These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 891 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Numbers 11:4 ESV / 889 helpful votes
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat!

Acts 6:1 ESV / 888 helpful votes
Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.

Luke 5:30 ESV / 881 helpful votes
And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

John 6:41 ESV / 870 helpful votes
So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

Numbers 16:1-50 ESV / 866 helpful votes
Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men. And they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men. They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?” When Moses heard it, he fell on his face, and he said to Korah and all his company, “In the morning the Lord will show who is his, and who is holy, and will bring him near to him. The one whom he chooses he will bring near to him. …

John 6:43 ESV / 863 helpful votes
Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.

Job 10:1 ESV / 841 helpful votes
“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 815 helpful votes
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

Lamentations 3:39 ESV / 814 helpful votes
Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?

Exodus 16:2-3 ESV / 807 helpful votes
And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 801 helpful votes
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 794 helpful votes
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Philippians 2:16 ESV / 791 helpful votes
Holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 787 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 …

Matthew 24:13 ESV / 770 helpful votes
But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 769 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Numbers 14:2 ESV / 768 helpful votes
And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 750 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.

Job 1:21 ESV / 736 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.”

James 1:2-4 ESV / 733 helpful votes
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.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 733 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.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 728 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.

Deuteronomy 32:5 ESV / 724 helpful votes
They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation.

Luke 9:51 ESV / 716 helpful votes
When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 714 helpful votes
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, …

Numbers 13:1-14:45 ESV / 706 helpful votes
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.” So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel. And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur; from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori; …

Numbers 21:5 ESV / 703 helpful votes
And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.”

1 Corinthians 10:11 ESV / 692 helpful votes
Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

Numbers 12:1-16 ESV / 692 helpful votes
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. And they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it. Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth. And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them came out. And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward. …

1 Corinthians 10:9 ESV / 678 helpful votes
We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents,

Luke 1:37 ESV / 674 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

1 Corinthians 10:1 ESV / 662 helpful votes
For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

Philippians 4:8-9 ESV / 656 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. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Exodus 16:2 ESV / 655 helpful votes
And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

Genesis 4:6 ESV / 643 helpful votes
The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?

Philippians 2:14-18 ESV / 614 helpful votes
Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.

James 4:1 ESV / 612 helpful votes
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

Numbers 11:1-2 ESV / 611 helpful votes
And the people complained in the hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes, and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp. Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down.

John 7:12-13 ESV / 606 helpful votes
And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.” Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.

Exodus 16:7-8 ESV / 606 helpful votes
And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against the Lord. For what are we, that you grumble against us?” And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the Lord.”

Numbers 16:41 ESV / 551 helpful votes
But on the next day all the congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the Lord.”

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 549 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 531 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.

Psalm 144:14 ESV / 531 helpful votes
May our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets!

Philippians 2:12 ESV / 527 helpful votes
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 512 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.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 511 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 503 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

Isaiah 59:1-2 ESV / 448 helpful votes
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV / 444 helpful votes
“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. …

Proverbs 23:29 ESV / 438 helpful votes
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

Psalm 22:1 ESV / 418 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?

1 Corinthians 10:1-33 ESV / 417 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. …

Psalm 127:1-5 ESV / 410 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. 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.

At the end of seven years thou dost make a release – ASLAN International Ministry

Aslan International Ministry – `At the end of seven years thou dost make a release,

²and this [is] the matter of the release: Every owner of a loan [is] to release his hand which he doth lift up against his neighbour, he doth not exact of his neighbour and of his brother, but hath proclaimed a release to Jehovah;

^{3 of the stranger thou mayest exact, and that which is thine with thy brother doth thy hand release;}

^{4 only when there is no needy one with thee, for Jehovah doth greatly bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — an inheritance to possess it.}

^{5 `Only, if thou dost diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this command which I am commanding thee to-day,}

^{6 for Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee as He hath spoken to thee; and thou hast lent [to] many nations, and thou hast not borrowed; and thou hast ruled over many nations, and over thee they do not rule.}

^{7 `When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;}

⁸for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh.

^{9 `Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart — worthless, saying, Near [is] the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin;}

^{10 thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand;}

^{11 because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.}

^{12 `When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years — then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee.}

^{13 And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty;}

^{14 thou dost certainly encircle him out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy wine-vat; [of] that which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou dost give to him,}

^{15 and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.}

^{16 `And it hath been, when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee — because he hath loved thee, and thy house, because [it is] good for him with thee —}

¹⁷then thou hast taken the awl, and hast put [it] through his ear, and through the door, and he hath been to thee a servant age-during; and also to thy handmaid thou dost do so.

^{18 `It is not hard in thine eyes, in thy sending him away free from thee; for the double of the hire of an hireling he hath served thee six years, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all that thou dost.}

^{19 `Every firstling that is born in thy herd and in thy flock — the male thou dost sanctify to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not work with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear the firstling of thy flock;}

^{20 before Jehovah thy God thou dost eat it year by year, in the place which Jehovah doth choose, thou and thy house.}

^{21 `And when there is in it a blemish, lame, or blind, any evil blemish, thou dost not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy God;}

^{22 within thy gates thou dost eat it, the unclean and the clean alike, as the roe, and as the hart.}

^{23 Only, its blood thou dost not eat; on the earth thou dost pour it as water. – Aslan International Ministry}

Aslan International Ministry – Companionship

Aslan International Ministry –

Companionship

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 141 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 121 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.”

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 49 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 43 helpful votes
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 40 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.

John 15:1-6 ESV / 37 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. …

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes
But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Luke 24:13-35 ESV / 20 helpful votes
That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. …

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 20 helpful votes
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 12 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 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 10 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.

Amos 3:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 9 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.

James 4:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 9 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.

Malachi 2:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

Proverbs 6:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Acts 2:42-47 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, …

John 15:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Psalm 119:63 ESV / 8 helpful votes
I am a companion of all who fear you, of those who keep your precepts.

Genesis 2:21-24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 8 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, …

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 7 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.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 7 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.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Jeremiah 23:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Philippians 3:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 5 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.

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 5 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.

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

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

Acts 10:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,

John 21:10-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.” So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, 153 of them. And although there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” Now none of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead. …

John 17:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:16 ESV / 5 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.

John 3:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Psalm 68:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 5 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.”

1 John 5:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

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

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

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 4 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 7:4-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 3:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?

1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

John 5:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

John 3:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

John 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Matthew 19:3-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” …

Matthew 12:7-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 4 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.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1-31 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. …

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 3 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.”

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 3 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.

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Philippians 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

John 16:13 ESV / 3 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.

Proverbs 6:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.

Genesis 19:1-38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” …

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

1 John 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

James 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

James 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

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

James 2:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.

Hebrews 4:14-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 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. 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.

1 Timothy 1:8-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

Philippians 2:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Ephesians 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore do not become partners with them;

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

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

Galatians 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
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.

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1 Corinthians 11:26 ESV / 307 helpful votes
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Matthew 26:26-28 ESV / 295 helpful votes
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

1 Corinthians 10:16 ESV / 224 helpful votes
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?

Acts 2:42 ESV / 220 helpful votes
And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Luke 22:19-20 ESV / 202 helpful votes
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

1 Corinthians 10:17 ESV / 190 helpful votes
Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

John 6:53-58 ESV / 178 helpful votes
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. …

1 Corinthians 11:24 ESV / 177 helpful votes
And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

Acts 20:7 ESV / 172 helpful votes
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

1 Corinthians 11:25 ESV / 167 helpful votes
In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

Mark 14:22-25 ESV / 158 helpful votes
And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

Luke 22:19 ESV / 148 helpful votes
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

1 John 1:3 ESV / 125 helpful votes
That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 10:16-17 ESV / 125 helpful votes
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

1 Corinthians 11:28 ESV / 124 helpful votes
Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

John 6:35 ESV / 124 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

1 Corinthians 11:30 ESV / 123 helpful votes
That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

1 Corinthians 11:17-34 ESV / 122 helpful votes
But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. When you come together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat. For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk. …

1 Corinthians 11:27-29 ESV / 117 helpful votes
Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

John 6:51 ESV / 117 helpful votes
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 6:1-71 ESV / 103 helpful votes
After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” …

2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 102 helpful votes
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 ESV / 95 helpful votes
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

1 Corinthians 11:27 ESV / 88 helpful votes
Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 88 helpful votes
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. 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. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. …

1 Corinthians 11:23-30 ESV / 86 helpful votes
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. …

John 17:21 ESV / 85 helpful votes
That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 82 helpful votes
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 75 helpful votes
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 74 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

John 6:33 ESV / 74 helpful votes
For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

Luke 24:30 ESV / 74 helpful votes
When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them.

Matthew 26:29 ESV / 73 helpful votes
I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

1 Corinthians 11:24-27 ESV / 69 helpful votes
And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 67 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.

1 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

John 1:29 ESV / 61 helpful votes
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

1 Corinthians 11:32 ESV / 59 helpful votes
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

Matthew 26:26-29 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

1 Corinthians 11:24-26 ESV / 58 helpful votes
And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Mark 14:22-24 ESV / 55 helpful votes
And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

1 Corinthians 11:22 ESV / 53 helpful votes
What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.

John 17:3 ESV / 53 helpful votes
And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

John 6:53 ESV / 52 helpful votes
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Acts 2:46 ESV / 50 helpful votes
And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,

John 6:53-54 ESV / 50 helpful votes
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

Matthew 26:26-30 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.” And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 49 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 John 1:9 ESV / 48 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 48 helpful votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

John 6:47-51 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Matthew 26:17-30 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’” And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover. When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. And as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” …

1 Corinthians 11:23 ESV / 46 helpful votes
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,

1 Corinthians 10:1-33 ESV / 46 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. …

Romans 5:8 ESV / 46 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Revelation 19:9 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”

Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 45 helpful votes
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

1 Corinthians 11:34 ESV / 45 helpful votes
If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.

Matthew 26:27 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you,

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 44 helpful votes
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Philippians 2:1 ESV / 44 helpful votes
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,

1 Corinthians 11:29 ESV / 44 helpful votes
For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— …

John 13:1-38 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. …

Luke 22:1-71 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called the Passover. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people. Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. He went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray him to them. And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. …

1 Corinthians 1:9 ESV / 43 helpful votes
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

John 16:13 ESV / 43 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.

Luke 24:1-53 ESV / 43 helpful votes
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? …

Matthew 26:26 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

Matthew 26:1-75 ESV / 43 helpful votes
When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.” Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.” …

Numbers 9:13 ESV / 43 helpful votes
But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the Lord’s offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.

Numbers 9:10 ESV / 43 helpful votes
“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the Lord.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 42 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,

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 42 helpful votes
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

1 Corinthians 11:33 ESV / 42 helpful votes
So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another—

Exodus 12:1-51 ESV / 42 helpful votes
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, …

John 14:23 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

Luke 24:32 ESV / 41 helpful votes
They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?”

Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple …

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

1 Corinthians 12:12 ESV / 39 helpful votes
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 39 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 38 helpful votes
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

1 Corinthians 11:31 ESV / 38 helpful votes
But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.

1 Corinthians 11:19 ESV / 34 helpful votes
For there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 34 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Mark 14:25 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

James 5:16 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Ephesians 4:1-3 ESV / 32 helpful votes
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Mark 14:12-25 ESV / 32 helpful votes
And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?” And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him, and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; there prepare for us.” And the disciples set out and went to the city and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. …

Genesis 5:24 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

Romans 12:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

Luke 22:18 ESV / 31 helpful votes
For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

Mark 14:23 ESV / 31 helpful votes
And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

1 Thessalonians 4:18 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another with these words.

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes
But every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven.

Acts 20:35 ESV / 28 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.’”

Genesis 6:9 ESV / 28 helpful votes
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

1 Corinthians 10:21 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

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Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 85 helpful votes
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Exodus 24:10 ESV / 49 helpful votes
And they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

2 Chronicles 2:7 ESV / 38 helpful votes
So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

Matthew 17:2 ESV / 33 helpful votes
And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.

Revelation 7:9 ESV / 32 helpful votes
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

Esther 8:15 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.

Psalm 52:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.

Judges 8:26 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.

Ezekiel 1:26 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And above the expanse over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness with a human appearance.

Exodus 26:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes
“Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

Exodus 25:4 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair,

Exodus 25:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,

Revelation 1:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes
The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,

Revelation 19:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes
It was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

Jeremiah 17:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes
He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

Revelation 17:4 ESV / 24 helpful votes
The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.

Daniel 11:35 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.

Proverbs 31:21 ESV / 23 helpful votes
She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet.

Genesis 25:25 ESV / 23 helpful votes
The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.

Mark 9:3 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.

Matthew 27:28 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,

Exodus 39:1-5 ESV / 22 helpful votes
From the blue and purple and scarlet yarns they made finely woven garments, for ministering in the Holy Place. They made the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord had commanded Moses. He made the ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. And they hammered out gold leaf, and he cut it into threads to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet yarns, and into the fine twined linen, in skilled design. They made for the ephod attaching shoulder pieces, joined to it at its two edges. And the skillfully woven band on it was of one piece with it and made like it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Revelation 19:14 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses.

Revelation 18:16 ESV / 21 helpful votes
“Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, with jewels, and with pearls!

Psalm 23:2 ESV / 21 helpful votes
He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

Numbers 19:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer.

Revelation 3:18 ESV / 20 helpful votes
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.

Luke 16:19 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.

Job 30:30 ESV / 20 helpful votes
My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

Numbers 4:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And they shall take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it.

Acts 16:14 ESV / 19 helpful votes
One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.

Daniel 12:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.

Ezekiel 17:24 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.”

Jeremiah 8:21 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded; I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Nahum 2:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes
The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished.

Isaiah 15:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
The waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the vegetation fails, the greenery is no more.

Ecclesiastes 9:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.

Revelation 6:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.

Daniel 7:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire.

Jeremiah 10:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men.

2 Chronicles 3:14 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.

Deuteronomy 12:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

Numbers 19:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come.

Numbers 15:38-40 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after. So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.

Genesis 9:4-5 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

Revelation 19:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.

Revelation 17:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 4:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.

John 3:16 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.

Matthew 28:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes
His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.

Zechariah 6:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes
The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 16 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. …

Judges 5:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes
“Tell of it, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets and you who walk by the way.

Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 16 helpful votes
You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

Exodus 35:23 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And every one who possessed blue or purple or scarlet yarns or fine linen or goats’ hair or tanned rams’ skins or goatskins brought them.

Revelation 12:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.

Revelation 6:1-17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer. When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword. When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. …

Revelation 2:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’

John 19:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.

Mark 6:39 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Then he commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass.

Ezekiel 23:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

Ezekiel 10:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Then I looked, and behold, on the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in appearance like a throne.

Lamentations 5:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

Jeremiah 11:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The Lord once called you ‘a green olive tree, beautiful with good fruit.’ But with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed.

Psalm 51:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Job 3:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Esther 1:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.

Leviticus 14:52 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water and with the live bird and with the cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn.

Exodus 28:31 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

Revelation 20:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.

Revelation 7:14 ESV / 14 helpful votes
I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 4:4 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads.

Mark 15:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

Zechariah 6:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go after them, and the dappled ones go toward the south country.”

Ezekiel 27:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your banner; blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your awning.

Isaiah 50:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes
I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering.”

Psalm 37:35 ESV / 14 helpful votes
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.

Psalm 37:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

Joshua 2:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.

Exodus 38:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And the screen for the gate of the court was embroidered with needlework in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It was twenty cubits long and five cubits high in its breadth, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

Exodus 36:37 ESV / 14 helpful votes
He also made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework,

Exodus 36:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins.

Revelation 15:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes around their chests.

Revelation 3:4-5 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

Luke 23:31 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

Psalm 68:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.

2 Chronicles 5:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with 120 priests who were trumpeters;

2 Chronicles 2:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.

2 Kings 3:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And when they rose early in the morning and the sun shone on the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.

Numbers 4:5-12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it. Then they shall put on it a covering of goatskin and spread on top of that a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles. And over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a cloth of blue and put on it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, and the flagons for the drink offering; the regular showbread also shall be on it. Then they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles. And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light, with its lamps, its tongs, its trays, and all the vessels for oil with which it is supplied. …

Leviticus 14:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.

Revelation 6:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand.

Jude 1:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

Jeremiah 14:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“Judah mourns, and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

Daniel 5:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The king called loudly to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king declared to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

Proverbs 31:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes
She makes bed coverings for herself; her clothing is fine linen and purple.

Revelation 18:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble,

Revelation 14:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.