Aslan International Ministry – Elder Abuse

Aslan International Ministry – 

Elder Abuse

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 304 helpful votes
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Matthew 25:42-45 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 12 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.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Titus 2:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.

2 John 1:9-11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.

Titus 3:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Zechariah 11:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!”

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

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! …

Titus 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,

Galatians 5:7-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

Acts 4:32-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” …

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Leviticus 10:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Acts 15:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

Luke 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Zechariah 14:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. …

Revelation 14:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

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

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Haggai 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts.

2 Timothy 4:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote
As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Acts 10:35 ESV / 1 helpful vote
But in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Acts 10:34 ESV / 1 helpful vote
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,

Acts 5:29 ESV / 1 helpful vote
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote
And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 1 helpful vote
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.

Ezekiel 48:1-35 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful
“These are the names of the tribes: Beginning at the northern extreme, beside the way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan (which is on the northern border of Damascus over against Hamath), and extending from the east side to the west, Dan, one portion. Adjoining the territory of Dan, from the east side to the west, Asher, one portion. Adjoining the territory of Asher, from the east side to the west, Naphtali, one portion. Adjoining the territory of Naphtali, from the east side to the west, Manasseh, one portion. Adjoining the territory of Manasseh, from the east side to the west, Ephraim, one portion. …

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

Aslan International Ministry – Eating

Aslan International Ministry – 

Eating

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 145 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 83 helpful votes
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 72 helpful votes
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 62 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. …

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 49 helpful votes
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 47 helpful votes
But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

John 6:27 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”

John 6:35 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 39 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.

Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 35 helpful votes
It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory.

Proverbs 25:16 ESV / 34 helpful votes
If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.

1 Timothy 4:3-5 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 33 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. …

Romans 14:2 ESV / 31 helpful votes
One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

Matthew 15:11 ESV / 30 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.”

Matthew 6:25 ESV / 30 helpful votes
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Ecclesiastes 10:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

1 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 27 helpful votes
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

1 Corinthians 8:8 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

Romans 14:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 ESV / 27 helpful votes
I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 25 helpful votes
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

1 Corinthians 11:29 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …

1 Corinthians 10:25 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.

Genesis 18:8 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree while they ate.

Colossians 2:16-17 ESV / 22 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. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 22 helpful votes
“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

1 Corinthians 8:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

Job 23:12 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 20 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 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 20 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.

John 6:51 ESV / 20 helpful votes
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Mark 7:19 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Matthew 15:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.”

Ecclesiastes 3:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.

Proverbs 23:21 ESV / 20 helpful votes
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

Psalm 136:25 ESV / 20 helpful votes
He who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever.

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 19 helpful votes
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Acts 15:29 ESV / 19 helpful votes
That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Proverbs 23:20-21 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

Exodus 16:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes
“I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’”

1 Corinthians 6:12-13 ESV / 18 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. “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.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 18 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.

Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Leviticus 3:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

James 1:22-25 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 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.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 17 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. …

Luke 1:37 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Amos 6:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. …

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 16 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. …

John 10:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 16 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Proverbs 30:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

Genesis 43:34 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Portions were taken to them from Joseph’s table, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry with him.

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Revelation 3:20-22 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 15 helpful votes
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. …

Philippians 4:12 ESV / 15 helpful votes
I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.

2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes
He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

John 7:37 ESV / 15 helpful votes
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

John 6:57 ESV / 15 helpful votes
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

Luke 12:22-23 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

Luke 12:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

Luke 9:16-17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.

Matthew 6:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

Amos 6:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile, and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away.”

Daniel 10:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes
I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.

Ecclesiastes 5:19 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.

Proverbs 19:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises his ways will die.

Proverbs 16:1-24:34 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit. Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established. The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished. …

Proverbs 13:25 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked suffers want.

Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

Proverbs 11:1-25:28 ESV / 15 helpful votes
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight. When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom. The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness. …

Psalm 107:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.

Psalm 107:1-109:31 ESV / 15 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. …

Deuteronomy 14:1-29 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. “You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. …

1 Timothy 6:7-8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.

1 Timothy 6:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.

1 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

1 Corinthians 9:10-12 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop. If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

Acts 2:46-47 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

Acts 2:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

John 6:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.

Luke 12:1-24:53 ESV / 14 helpful votes
In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops. “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! …

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 5:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Matthew 4:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Deuteronomy 14:9-10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

Psalm 81:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes
I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Nehemiah 8:1-10:39 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel. So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month. And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law. And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand, and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand. And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people, and as he opened it all the people stood. …

Leviticus 7:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat.

Exodus 32:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

Aslan International Ministry – Doing Good Deeds

Aslan International Ministry – Doing Good Deeds

Doing Good Deeds

Matthew 6:1-4 ESV / 836 helpful votes
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 654 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 423 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.

James 4:17 ESV / 398 helpful votes
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

James 2:26 ESV / 293 helpful votes
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 249 helpful votes
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 232 helpful votes
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Titus 2:7-9 ESV / 225 helpful votes
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 221 helpful votes
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 213 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.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 197 helpful votes
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Galatians 5:19-26 ESV / 172 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. …

James 1:27 ESV / 161 helpful votes
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Titus 3:14 ESV / 161 helpful votes
And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 154 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Micah 6:8 ESV / 153 helpful votes
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 150 helpful votes
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 140 helpful votes
That the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 135 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Matthew 6:1 ESV / 135 helpful votes
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

James 2:14-17 ESV / 128 helpful votes
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV / 128 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. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

3 John 1:11 ESV / 106 helpful votes
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

John 3:16 ESV / 106 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.

James 2:24 ESV / 105 helpful votes
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

1 Timothy 6:18 ESV / 104 helpful votes
They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 103 helpful votes
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. …

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 100 helpful votes
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Psalm 37:3 ESV / 99 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 98 helpful votes
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 96 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 92 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Matthew 5:42 ESV / 92 helpful votes
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 90 helpful votes
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 85 helpful votes
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.

Luke 6:35 ESV / 84 helpful votes
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

James 2:17 ESV / 79 helpful votes
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

John 5:28-29 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 76 helpful votes
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, …

Matthew 6:3 ESV / 74 helpful votes
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

Romans 4:4-5 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,

1 Peter 2:12 ESV / 69 helpful votes
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

Matthew 16:27 ESV / 68 helpful votes
For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 65 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.

Revelation 22:12 ESV / 59 helpful votes
“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.

Romans 11:6 ESV / 59 helpful votes
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

Romans 3:28 ESV / 59 helpful votes
For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Isaiah 58:7 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

2 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 57 helpful votes
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

Romans 6:23 ESV / 57 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ESV / 57 helpful votes
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 56 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,

1 John 3:17 ESV / 55 helpful votes
But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 54 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. …

Luke 3:11 ESV / 53 helpful votes
And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”

Isaiah 41:17 ESV / 53 helpful votes
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Psalm 34:13-14 ESV / 53 helpful votes
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 51 helpful votes
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

Romans 2:6 ESV / 51 helpful votes
He will render to each one according to his works:

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. …

1 Peter 1:17 ESV / 50 helpful votes
And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,

2 Timothy 4:14 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 50 helpful votes
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. …

Matthew 25:34-40 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? …

1 Corinthians 15:10 ESV / 49 helpful votes
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

James 2:14-26 ESV / 48 helpful votes
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. …

Matthew 6:4 ESV / 48 helpful votes
So that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 47 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

2 John 1:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …

Matthew 23:5 ESV / 47 helpful votes
They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,

James 3:13 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

Romans 16:19 ESV / 45 helpful votes
For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.

Romans 3:20 ESV / 44 helpful votes
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Acts 9:36 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.

Mark 16:15 ESV / 44 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 44 helpful votes
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Galatians 5:6 ESV / 43 helpful votes
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 43 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.

Matthew 6:5 ESV / 42 helpful votes
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

1 Timothy 3:1 ESV / 41 helpful votes
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.

Colossians 3:1-4 ESV / 41 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.

Titus 3:8 ESV / 40 helpful votes
The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.

Revelation 2:19 ESV / 39 helpful votes
“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.

Romans 4:1-25 ESV / 38 helpful votes
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, …

Nehemiah 6:19 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Also they spoke of his good deeds in my presence and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to make me afraid.

James 2:16 ESV / 37 helpful votes
And one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?

Romans 6:14 ESV / 37 helpful votes
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 37 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Psalm 112:9 ESV / 37 helpful votes
He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn is exalted in honor.

Romans 12:8 ESV / 36 helpful votes
The one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Luke 15:7 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

James 2:22 ESV / 35 helpful votes
You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;

John 3:16-17 ESV / 35 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.

Acts 10:38 ESV / 33 helpful votes
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 32 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. …

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 32 helpful votes
For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. …

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ESV / 31 helpful votes
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; …

Isaiah 8:20 ESV / 30 helpful votes
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

ASLAN International Ministry Scripture Verses About Advice

ASLAN International Ministry Scripture Verses About  

Advice

Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 197 helpful votes
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 184 helpful votes
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 126 helpful votes
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Proverbs 24:6 ESV / 117 helpful votes
For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 116 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.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 74 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.

Proverbs 14:15 ESV / 58 helpful votes
The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.

1 Kings 12:6-8 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?” And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.” But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 51 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 39 helpful votes
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 4:13 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice.

Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

Psalm 119:24 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.

Proverbs 12:5 ESV / 24 helpful votes
The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 23 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.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

James 1:5 ESV / 20 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.

Luke 14:28 ESV / 20 helpful votes
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 19 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 1:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

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

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Jeremiah 38:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”

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

Proverbs 6:20-23 ESV / 17 helpful votes
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck. When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you. For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Proverbs 3:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

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

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 16 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.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

1 Corinthians 4:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes
I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

John 3:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Proverbs 19:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.

Proverbs 15:31-33 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence. The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

James 3:17 ESV / 13 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.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Romans 8:1-4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Hebrews 13:1-25 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. 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 3:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 12 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.

Mark 10:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 12 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 27:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 12 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 / 12 helpful votes
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

Revelation 3:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.

1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

James 4:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

John 10:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Luke 14:28-30 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Isaiah 30:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

Ecclesiastes 11:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.

Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 10 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 15:33 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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

Romans 12:2 ESV / 10 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.

John 15:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Proverbs 24:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.

Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 10 helpful votes
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. …

2 Kings 2:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

John 13:6-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!”

Proverbs 27:5-6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Proverbs 23:19-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way. Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 9 helpful votes
One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 8 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,

James 3:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

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

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 8 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 8:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Job 2:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.

Genesis 1:27-28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

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

Malachi 2:14-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. 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.

Proverbs 26:1-28 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. …

Proverbs 12:1-28 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns. No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. …

Psalm 133:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

Colossians 3:18-19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

John 15:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

And he said, `A certain man had two sons – ASLAN International Ministry

Luke 15:11-3211 And he said, `A certain man had two sons,12 and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to [me], and he divided to them the living.13 `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;14 and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;15 and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,16 and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.17 `And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!18 having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin — to the heaven, and before thee,19 and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.20 `And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;21 and the son said to him, Father, I did sin — to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son.22 `And the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the first robe, and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and sandals for the feet;23 and having brought the fatted calf, kill [it], and having eaten, we may be merry,24 because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.25 `And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,26 and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be,27 and he said to him — Thy brother is arrived, and thy father did kill the fatted calf, because in health he did receive him back.28 `And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;29 and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;30 but when thy son — this one who did devour thy living with harlots — came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.31 `And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all my things are thine;32 but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.’

Aslan International Ministry – Comparing Ourselves

Aslan International Ministry – 

Comparing Ourselves

2 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.

Galatians 6:4 ESV / 69 helpful votes
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 33 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.

2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

Galatians 1:10 ESV / 30 helpful votes
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 26 helpful votes
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 26 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.

Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 25 helpful votes
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ …

Romans 12:3 ESV / 24 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.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 21 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.

Acts 20:35 ESV / 21 helpful votes
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

John 16:33 ESV / 21 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.”

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Galatians 6:4-5 ESV / 20 helpful votes
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load.

Psalm 23:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

James 2:13 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 19 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.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

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

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Jude 1:19 ESV / 16 helpful votes
It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.

Matthew 20:1-16 ESV / 16 helpful votes
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. …

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

James 2:26 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

James 1:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. …

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 15 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 15 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. …

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 15 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

2 Corinthians 10:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present.

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

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

John 14:27 ESV / 15 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.

John 3:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 7:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

Matthew 7:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 15 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.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

2 Peter 2:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

James 3:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 14 helpful votes
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 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, …

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

1 Corinthians 2:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Romans 12:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;

John 1:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Revelation 3:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

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

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

John 8:32 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Matthew 5:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Psalm 138:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

2 Corinthians 5:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes
We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.

Luke 22:24-27 ESV / 11 helpful votes
A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. And he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves. For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

1 Timothy 6:6-8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.

2 Corinthians 12:1-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes
I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. …

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 10 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.

Romans 8:31 ESV / 10 helpful votes
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 1:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 21:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!”

John 13:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”

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

John 8:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Luke 9:46-48 ESV / 10 helpful votes
An argument arose among them as to which of them was the greatest. But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you all is the one who is great.”

Luke 6:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money. …

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 10 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.

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 5:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Aslan International Ministry – Communicating With One Another

Aslan International Ministry – 

Communicating With One Another

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 137 helpful votes
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 80 helpful votes
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Ephesians 4:25-29 ESV / 77 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. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 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.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 48 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.

Matthew 15:18-20 ESV / 41 helpful votes
But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 34 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Colossians 3:9 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes
If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

James 1:19 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

John 13:34 ESV / 21 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. …

Romans 15:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes
I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

John 13:35 ESV / 17 helpful votes
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 16 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.

Romans 15:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

1 Peter 4:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.

James 4:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

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

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Proverbs 18:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

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

1 John 4:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 3:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

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

1 Thessalonians 4:18 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Romans 12:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.

John 13:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

James 5:16 ESV / 12 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.

1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Romans 14:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Mark 9:50 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 5:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Romans 16:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Romans 14:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 11 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 8:44 ESV / 11 helpful votes
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

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

1 Corinthians 11:33 ESV / 10 helpful votes
So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another—

Proverbs 20:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

1 John 3:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.

1 Peter 5:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Greet one another with the kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

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

James 1:19-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Hebrews 1:1-3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

1 Thessalonians 3:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

Ephesians 5:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 9 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.

Galatians 5:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Romans 15:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Proverbs 29:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Proverbs 26:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 17:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Proverbs 17:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 7 helpful votes
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. …

1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

John 15:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

Amos 3:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?

2 John 1:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 6 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 Timothy 2:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,

Romans 1:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

1 John 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Titus 3:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.

1 Corinthians 16:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
All the brothers send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

1 Corinthians 12:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes
That there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

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

Aslan International Ministry – Color Hair

Aslan International Ministry – 

Color Hair

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 44 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,

Matthew 5:36 ESV / 38 helpful votes
And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 32 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.

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 30 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 Corinthians 11:14 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,

Luke 21:18 ESV / 26 helpful votes
But not a hair of your head will perish.

1 Corinthians 11:15 ESV / 23 helpful votes
But if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 22 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.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 20 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 11:1-34 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. …

Matthew 10:30 ESV / 19 helpful votes
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 18 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Isaiah 3:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

2 Samuel 14:26 ESV / 18 helpful votes
And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king’s weight.

Exodus 25:4 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair,

Romans 14:23 ESV / 17 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.

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

Luke 12:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Numbers 6:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
“All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 15 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.

Job 4:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes
A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

Judges 16:22 ESV / 15 helpful votes
But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 14 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.

Acts 18:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes
After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers and set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow.

Revelation 7:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

Revelation 6:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 Corinthians 11:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes
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.

Jeremiah 7:29 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“‘Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’

Judges 20:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Among all these were 700 chosen men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

Revelation 9:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth;

Revelation 1:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes
His feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.

Revelation 1:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.

Acts 27:34 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you.”

Ezekiel 44:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads.

Leviticus 19:32 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 11 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. …

Acts 2:37-38 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” 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.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. …

Leviticus 14:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.

Leviticus 13:41 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And if a man’s hair falls out from his forehead, he has baldness of the forehead; he is clean.

Leviticus 13:40 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“If a man’s hair falls out from his head, he is bald; he is clean.

Leviticus 13:32 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the disease. If the itch has not spread, and there is in it no yellow hair, and the itch appears to be no deeper than the skin,

Leviticus 13:31 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And if the priest examines the itching disease and it appears no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for seven days,

Revelation 1:14-16 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Psalm 40:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.

1 Kings 1:1-53 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm.” So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not. Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. …

Leviticus 13:37 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But if in his eyes the itch is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the itch is healed and he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

Leviticus 13:36 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Then the priest shall examine him, and if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean.

Leviticus 13:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And the priest shall look. And if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,

Exodus 35:26 ESV / 10 helpful votes
All the women whose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goats’ hair.

Revelation 20:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.

1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 9 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, …

John 3:5-6 ESV / 9 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. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Isaiah 53:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.

Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

1 Samuel 14:45 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Then the people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the Lord lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.” So the people ransomed Jonathan, so that he did not die.

Leviticus 13:30 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The priest shall examine the disease. And if it appears deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch, a leprous disease of the head or the beard.

Exodus 35:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; goats’ hair,

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

Revelation 6:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.

1 Peter 4:1-19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. …

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 8 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.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 14:6 ESV / 8 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 11:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Mark 2:1-28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” …

Mark 1:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 3:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Zechariah 6:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go after them, and the dappled ones go toward the south country.”

Zechariah 6:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,

Lamentations 5:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

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

Job 30:30 ESV / 8 helpful votes
My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

Ezra 9:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.

Leviticus 13:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But if the spot is white in the skin of his body and appears no deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest shall shut up the diseased person for seven days.

1 John 1:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Mark 9:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.

Matthew 17:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.

Hosea 7:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.

Jeremiah 14:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“Judah mourns, and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

2 Kings 9:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes
When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.

Revelation 1:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

Acts 17:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

John 4:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.

Nahum 2:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished.

Daniel 12:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.

Lamentations 4:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. …

Isaiah 50:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.

Aslan International Ministry – Choosing A Mate

Aslan International Ministry – 

Choosing A Mate

Philippians 4:6-9 ESV / 226 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 179 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 138 helpful votes
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 132 helpful votes
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 120 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. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. …

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 114 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. …

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 85 helpful votes
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Romans 8:7 ESV / 69 helpful votes
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.

Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 68 helpful votes
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 66 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.

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 65 helpful votes
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Amos 3:3 ESV / 59 helpful votes
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 58 helpful votes
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Mark 10:9 ESV / 57 helpful votes
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 55 helpful votes
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Matthew 6:29-34 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. …

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 44 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 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; …

Ephesians 5:28 ESV / 37 helpful votes
In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Proverbs 19:27 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Psalm 127:1 ESV / 31 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.

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Acts 5:29 ESV / 29 helpful votes
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

John 13:34 ESV / 28 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

1 Peter 3:6 ESV / 25 helpful votes
As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.

Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 24 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.

Titus 1:6 ESV / 22 helpful votes
If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

Proverbs 24:27 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.

Proverbs 24:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes
A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,

Proverbs 14:6 ESV / 19 helpful votes
A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

Matthew 5:25-29 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny. “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

Genesis 24:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Let the young woman to whom I shall say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.”

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

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 12 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.

Hebrews 10:1-39 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; …

Ecclesiastes 8:1-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed. I say: Keep the king’s command, because of God’s oath to him. Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases. For the word of the king is supreme, and who may say to him, “What are you doing?” Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way. …

Proverbs 20:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.

Song of Solomon 2:1-4:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women. As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love. …

Ruth 1:1-4:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. …

Song of Solomon 7:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand. Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies. Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, which looks toward Damascus. Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses. …

Aslan International Ministry – Choices We Make

Aslan International Ministry – 

Choices We Make

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 50 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

James 1:15 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 32 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.

Romans 2:6-8 ESV / 26 helpful votes
He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. …

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

Romans 6:23 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Revelation 19:7-9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”

Luke 14:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

Luke 10:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 7:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. …

Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man’s dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Romans 11:19-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes
A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

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

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

John 13:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

John 11:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Jesus wept.

John 8:31-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

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.

Luke 16:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …

Hebrews 11:24-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

Ecclesiastes 11:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Genesis 3:1-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” …

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, …

Genesis 17:1-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.” Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. …