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Aslan International Ministry – Christians Being Demon Possesses

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Christians Being Demon Possesses

2 Timothy 2:24-26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

2 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.

Acts 19:11-12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.

1 Timothy 4:1-2 ESV / 6 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,

1 Timothy 3:6-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.

1 John 5:1-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? …

Galatians 3:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.

2 Corinthians 2:10-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

Luke 13:10-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.” …

Luke 4:16-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Ephesians 4:25-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.

2 Corinthians 11:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.

Luke 4:38-41 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And he arose and left the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they appealed to him on her behalf. And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she rose and began to serve them. Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. And demons also came out of many, crying, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

Luke 4:31-36 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbath, and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word possessed authority. And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, “Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.” But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm. …

Mark 16:16-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Mark 7:23-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.” And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” …

Mark 1:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.

Mark 1:30-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now Simon’s mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them. That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons. And the whole city was gathered together at the door. And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.

Mark 1:23-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.” But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him.

Matthew 15:22-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.” But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.” He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” And he answered, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” …

Matthew 9:32-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
As they were going away, behold, a demon-oppressed man who was mute was brought to him. And when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, “Never was anything like this seen in Israel.”

Aslan International Ministry – Christian Women

Aslan International Ministry – 

Christian Women

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 23 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.

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes
“A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

1 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.

1 Timothy 2:11-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

1 Timothy 2:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

Acts 21:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied.

1 Timothy 5:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. …

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 7 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.

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 6 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.

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

Matthew 23:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 6 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.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 6 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 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.

1 Peter 3:2-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
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,

1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 5 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, …

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 6:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”

1 Timothy 2:11-14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Romans 16:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 11:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.

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 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

1 Peter 3:1-2 ESV / 4 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.

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

1 Timothy 2:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.

1 Timothy 2:9-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; …

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. …

Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

1 Corinthians 11:3-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. 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. For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head. For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. …

Luke 8:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.

Psalm 40:1-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. …

Genesis 2:18-24 ESV / 4 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.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. 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. …

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 Timothy 3:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

1 Peter 2:13-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

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

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

Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. …

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

1 Timothy 5:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband, and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.

1 Timothy 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For Adam was formed first, then Eve;

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

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

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

Galatians 3:26-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 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. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

1 Corinthians 14:33-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

Micah 4:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it, and many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore; but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken. For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. …

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

Proverbs 19:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

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

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 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 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Aslan International Ministry – Christian Relationships

Aslan International Ministry – 

Christian Relationships

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 13 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.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 13 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.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 12 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 6:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 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.

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 8 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.”

Philippians 2:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 7 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.

Romans 12:9-10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 6 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 6:1-3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Psalm 46:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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.

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

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.

Proverbs 31:10-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 5 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 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 4 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. …

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 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 6:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

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.”

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

Philippians 1:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

Philippians 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

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.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 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 7:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 12:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

Romans 12:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.

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

Romans 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 5:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

John 19:26-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

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

John 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

John 6:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

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

Genesis 2:18-25 ESV / 3 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.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. 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. …

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 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. …

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.

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.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

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

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 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.

2 Corinthians 5:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Mark 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 2 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.”

Matthew 10:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

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

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

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

Amos 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 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.

Song of Solomon 8:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

Song of Solomon 4:9 ESV / 2 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.

Song of Solomon 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 2 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.

Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Proverbs 31:28-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

Proverbs 11:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.

Aslan International Ministry – Christian Mission

Aslan International Ministry – 

Christian Mission

John 14:6 ESV / 10 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 / 6 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 4 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.

John 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. …

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
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.

Aslan International Ministry – Christian Maturity

Aslan International Ministry – Christian Maturity

Christian Maturity

1 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 122 helpful votes
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

Hebrews 5:12-14 ESV / 77 helpful votes
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV / 57 helpful votes
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

James 1:22 ESV / 50 helpful votes
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Ephesians 4:11-14 ESV / 44 helpful votes
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Luke 8:14 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.

Colossians 1:9-12 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. 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.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

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—

John 3:19-21 ESV / 24 helpful votes
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. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

Philippians 3:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

James 1:4 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

1 Corinthians 2:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

John 20:31 ESV / 14 helpful votes
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Malachi 2:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Galatians 4:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
My little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!

1 Corinthians 3:1-23 ESV / 9 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? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human? What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. …

John 15:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
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.

Luke 12:48 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

Luke 2:52 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

Romans 3:1-9:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) …

Song of Solomon 2:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.”

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Aslan International Ministry – Christian Liberty

Aslan International Ministry – 

Christian Liberty

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 60 helpful votes
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

1 Peter 2:16 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 26 helpful votes
“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 26 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.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 26 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. …

2 Peter 2:19 ESV / 23 helpful votes
They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.

James 1:25 ESV / 21 helpful votes
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 20 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Colossians 2:16 ESV / 16 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.

Romans 8:5-8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 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. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 11 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.

Psalm 119:45 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought your precepts.

Romans 14:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

1 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Romans 14:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Romans 14:5 ESV / 7 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.

Matthew 15:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 7 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.

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 6 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, …

1 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

2 Peter 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, …

Galatians 5:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.

1 Corinthians 8:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

John 16:13 ESV / 5 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.

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. 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’? …

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. …

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Psalm 19:1-14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. …

Judges 9:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my wine that cheers God and men and go hold sway over the trees?’

1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

Romans 13:13 ESV / 4 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.

Romans 3:10-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”

Acts 2:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”

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

Hosea 4:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.

Psalm 107:1-43 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in; hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them. …

Psalm 104:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man’s heart.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 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. …

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
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, …

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Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 1,898 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 1,404 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1,130 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 1,018 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 941 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.

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 940 helpful votes
An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 9:9 ESV / 874 helpful votes
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 856 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.

Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 801 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 ESV / 800 helpful votes
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. …

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 747 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.

Colossians 1:28 ESV / 745 helpful votes
Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Daniel 1:17 ESV / 733 helpful votes
As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Proverbs 4:13 ESV / 729 helpful votes
Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

Proverbs 16:16 ESV / 668 helpful votes
How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 668 helpful votes
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 660 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.

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 630 helpful votes
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 620 helpful votes
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 619 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, …

Luke 1:37 ESV / 619 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Psalm 119:66 ESV / 613 helpful votes
Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 603 helpful votes
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 603 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. …

Ecclesiastes 7:12 ESV / 552 helpful votes
For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 544 helpful votes
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Deuteronomy 6:1-25 ESV / 541 helpful votes
“Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. …

John 14:6 ESV / 538 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.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 538 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 535 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.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 532 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

James 1:5 ESV / 513 helpful votes
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Acts 7:22 ESV / 482 helpful votes
And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 480 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

John 8:32 ESV / 480 helpful votes
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Acts 17:28 ESV / 479 helpful votes
For “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 478 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 477 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Proverbs 15:33 ESV / 475 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

Proverbs 1:5 ESV / 469 helpful votes
Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,

John 16:33 ESV / 465 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 3:10 ESV / 458 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 458 helpful votes
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 454 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. …

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 441 helpful votes
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 433 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 433 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 423 helpful votes
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 417 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.

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 417 helpful votes
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Psalm 25:5 ESV / 415 helpful votes
Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 407 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 2:52 ESV / 404 helpful votes
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 404 helpful votes
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 404 helpful votes
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

James 3:17 ESV / 403 helpful votes
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Romans 15:4 ESV / 398 helpful votes
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Proverbs 4:6-7 ESV / 396 helpful votes
Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 396 helpful votes
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 394 helpful votes
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 387 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 3:2 ESV / 384 helpful votes
This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 381 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Romans 5:8 ESV / 368 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 367 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Romans 8:28 ESV / 359 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 3:5-6 ESV / 358 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.

John 14:26 ESV / 352 helpful votes
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

Acts 22:3 ESV / 349 helpful votes
“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day.

Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 347 helpful votes
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 345 helpful votes
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.

John 15:13 ESV / 345 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Ecclesiastes 12:12 ESV / 344 helpful votes
My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Proverbs 16:22 ESV / 344 helpful votes
Good sense is a fountain of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 344 helpful votes
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 342 helpful votes
And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

John 3:3 ESV / 342 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 340 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 340 helpful votes
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

Deuteronomy 11:19 ESV / 329 helpful votes
You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

2 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 325 helpful votes
And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 324 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. …

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 324 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 316 helpful votes
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV / 281 helpful votes
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, …

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 278 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.

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 270 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 270 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Deuteronomy 6:23 ESV / 270 helpful votes
And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers.

Job 28:28 ESV / 269 helpful votes
And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

1 Timothy 4:13 ESV / 268 helpful votes
Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

Ecclesiastes 9:18 ESV / 268 helpful votes
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Ecclesiastes 7:19 ESV / 268 helpful votes
Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

Proverbs 3:14 ESV / 268 helpful votes
For the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold.

Proverbs 3:13 ESV / 268 helpful votes
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,

Psalm 107:43 ESV / 268 helpful votes
Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord.

John 14:27 ESV / 267 helpful votes
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 267 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 266 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 266 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

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Christian Actions

Romans 7:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

Mark 13:7-8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Joel 3:1-21 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it. “What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples. …

Ezra 9:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

Romans 1:18-32 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, …

1 Kings 10:1-13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions. She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind. And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king that he could not explain to her. And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the Lord, there was no more breath in her. …

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

Revelation 2:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.

John 2:14-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.

Luke 19:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.’”

Luke 12:51 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. …

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

Psalm 127:1 ESV / 4 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.

Nehemiah 13:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes
On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God, for they did not meet the people of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them—yet our God turned the curse into a blessing. As soon as the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent. Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah, prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had previously put the grain offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests. …

Leviticus 20:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech. …

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 4 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.”

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. …

John 18:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”

John 4:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)

Matthew 23:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

Matthew 10:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Matthew 6:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

Joel 3:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”

Ezra 9:10-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness. Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

Ezra 9:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”

Ezra 9:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Deuteronomy 7:1-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves, and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,

Genesis 28:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women,”

Genesis 28:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.

Romans 7:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

Aslan International Ministry – Christening

Aslan International Ministry – 

Christening

Acts 2:38 ESV / 1,004 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 936 helpful votes
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Acts 22:16 ESV / 869 helpful votes
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

Mark 16:16 ESV / 815 helpful votes
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 799 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.

Galatians 3:27 ESV / 616 helpful votes
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Ephesians 4:5 ESV / 543 helpful votes
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 536 helpful votes
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

John 3:5 ESV / 530 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 530 helpful votes
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Acts 2:41 ESV / 503 helpful votes
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Matthew 3:11 ESV / 452 helpful votes
“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Colossians 2:12 ESV / 445 helpful votes
Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Romans 6:3 ESV / 436 helpful votes
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Romans 6:4 ESV / 434 helpful votes
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Luke 3:21-22 ESV / 411 helpful votes
Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened, and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”

Mark 1:4 ESV / 403 helpful votes
John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Acts 10:47 ESV / 399 helpful votes
“Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

Romans 6:3-4 ESV / 397 helpful votes
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Acts 19:4 ESV / 374 helpful votes
And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.”

Luke 3:16 ESV / 369 helpful votes
John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 362 helpful votes
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Acts 16:33 ESV / 353 helpful votes
And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.

John 1:33 ESV / 348 helpful votes
I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

Matthew 19:14 ESV / 329 helpful votes
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 3:16 ESV / 307 helpful votes
And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;

Acts 8:12 ESV / 304 helpful votes
But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Acts 10:48 ESV / 279 helpful votes
And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.

1 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 273 helpful votes
And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 268 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Mark 1:9-11 ESV / 259 helpful votes
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 253 helpful votes
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. …

Acts 16:15 ESV / 250 helpful votes
And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.

Ephesians 4:4-6 ESV / 247 helpful votes
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Acts 18:8 ESV / 247 helpful votes
Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.

John 3:23 ESV / 246 helpful votes
John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized

Mark 1:4-5 ESV / 246 helpful votes
John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Matthew 3:13-17 ESV / 244 helpful votes
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Colossians 2:11-12 ESV / 239 helpful votes
In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Luke 18:16 ESV / 228 helpful votes
But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

1 Peter 3:20-21 ESV / 227 helpful votes
Because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 221 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, …

Mark 1:8 ESV / 221 helpful votes
I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 220 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

John 3:16 ESV / 220 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.

Galatians 3:26-27 ESV / 219 helpful votes
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Acts 8:36 ESV / 219 helpful votes
And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”

Acts 16:31 ESV / 217 helpful votes
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Acts 8:36-38 ESV / 217 helpful votes
And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

Acts 8:38 ESV / 210 helpful votes
And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

Acts 8:1-40 ESV / 206 helpful votes
And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him. But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison. Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. …

Luke 3:3 ESV / 199 helpful votes
And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 2:12-13 ESV / 198 helpful votes
Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

Mark 16:15-16 ESV / 190 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Romans 6:3-6 ESV / 186 helpful votes
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

James 1:17 ESV / 184 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.

Acts 18:25 ESV / 177 helpful votes
He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.

Acts 8:35-38 ESV / 174 helpful votes
Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 173 helpful votes
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Luke 12:50 ESV / 171 helpful votes
I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!

Acts 4:12 ESV / 170 helpful votes
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Mark 16:15-18 ESV / 170 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 169 helpful votes
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Acts 8:13 ESV / 167 helpful votes
Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed.

1 Corinthians 15:29 ESV / 164 helpful votes
Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?

1 Corinthians 10:1-2 ESV / 164 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,

John 1:29-33 ESV / 164 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! This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’ I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.” And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 162 helpful votes
And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Acts 9:18 ESV / 162 helpful votes
And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized;

Acts 19:5 ESV / 160 helpful votes
On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Matthew 21:25 ESV / 158 helpful votes
The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?” And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

Acts 13:24 ESV / 157 helpful votes
Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

Acts 1:22 ESV / 156 helpful votes
Beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.”

Mark 11:30 ESV / 156 helpful votes
Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Answer me.”

Acts 19:3 ESV / 154 helpful votes
And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”

John 3:22 ESV / 153 helpful votes
After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 151 helpful votes
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. …

Luke 7:29 ESV / 150 helpful votes
(When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

Acts 10:37 ESV / 148 helpful votes
You yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed:

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 148 helpful votes
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. …

Luke 3:21 ESV / 147 helpful votes
Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened,

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 143 helpful votes
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Acts 1:5 ESV / 139 helpful votes
For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

1 Corinthians 1:16 ESV / 134 helpful votes
(I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)

Acts 2:1-4 ESV / 133 helpful votes
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Acts 19:5-6 ESV / 132 helpful votes
On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.

1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 127 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Mark 1:5 ESV / 121 helpful votes
And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 121 helpful votes
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

Mark 10:15-16 ESV / 119 helpful votes
Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 118 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.

Acts 19:1-41 ESV / 117 helpful votes
And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.” And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. …

John 4:1-2 ESV / 115 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),

Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 114 helpful votes
Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. …

John 14:1-31 ESV / 110 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” …

1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 108 helpful votes
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; …

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 105 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.

John 14:15 ESV / 102 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 4:1 ESV / 102 helpful votes
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

Acts 11:16 ESV / 94 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

Aslan International Ministry – Christ Crucified

Aslan International Ministry – 

Christ Crucified

Luke 23:33-43 ESV / 46 helpful votes
And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments. And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!” The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!” …

John 14:6 ESV / 35 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 1:11 ESV / 25 helpful votes
He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

Acts 2:36 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

John 3:36 ESV / 24 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.

1 Corinthians 1:23 ESV / 22 helpful votes
But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,

John 18:36 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”

Mark 15:25-39 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And it was the third hour when they crucified him. And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.” And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself, and come down from the cross!” …

1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 17 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.

John 1:19-25 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” …

1 Corinthians 2:7-8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Romans 10:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);

Romans 8:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

1 Corinthians 1:23-24 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Luke 23:34 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.

John 19:31 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.

Psalm 22:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
They divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.

1 Corinthians 2:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 9 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 27:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!”

Amos 8:11-12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.

Isaiah 45:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:

Deuteronomy 18:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

John 19:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

John 19:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

John 19:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.

Luke 23:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

Mark 15:1-30 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole Council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate. And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.” And the chief priests accused him of many things. And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.” But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed. …

Matthew 27:35 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots.

Matthew 26:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

Matthew 17:11-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
He answered, “Elijah does come, and he will restore all things. But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man will certainly suffer at their hands.” Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist.

Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. …

Ephesians 1:3-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

Galatians 6:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Galatians 5:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Galatians 2:19-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. 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. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

Romans 6:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

John 19:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom,

Luke 23:46 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

Mark 15:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Mark 15:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And it was the third hour when they crucified him.

Mark 15:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take.

Matthew 20:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”

Matthew 7:16-20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

Isaiah 29:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”

Psalm 22:1 ESV / 6 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?

Deuteronomy 18:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen—

John 20:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

John 18:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them; they know what I said.”

Mark 15:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.

Mark 15:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.

Mark 15:22-32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. And it was the third hour when they crucified him. And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.” …

Matthew 28:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

Matthew 27:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.

Matthew 27:38 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left.

Matthew 27:28-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.

Matthew 27:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.

Matthew 11:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes
My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. …

Genesis 17:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.

Galatians 3:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.

John 19:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.”

John 19:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.

John 19:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”

John 19:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

John 3:10-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things? Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, …

Luke 24:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

Luke 23:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes
There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews.”

Luke 23:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine

Mark 15:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.

Matthew 27:54 ESV / 4 helpful votes
When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”

Matthew 27:46-47 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.”

Matthew 27:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes
They offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.

Isaiah 53:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 53:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

Isaiah 52:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
As many were astonished at you— his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—

Psalm 69:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 3 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.

Philippians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

1 Corinthians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

1 Corinthians 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 3 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— …

Romans 8:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Acts 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well.

Acts 2:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

John 20:25-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.” Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”

John 19:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.

John 19:26-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

John 19:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,

John 1:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

Luke 23:43 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Luke 23:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.

Mark 15:44-45 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died. And summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead. And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph.

Mark 15:29-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself, and come down from the cross!” So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.

Mark 15:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.

Matthew 27:46 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Matthew 27:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross.

Zechariah 12:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.