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Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 146 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 123 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 87 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Matthew 18:10 ESV / 76 helpful votes
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 66 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Matthew 19:14 ESV / 60 helpful votes
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 57 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 56 helpful votes
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Isaiah 54:13 ESV / 55 helpful votes
All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 50 helpful votes
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV / 49 helpful votes
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

Mark 10:13-16 ESV / 48 helpful votes
And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Romans 8:14 ESV / 47 helpful votes
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Proverbs 20:11 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.

3 John 1:4 ESV / 43 helpful votes
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

2 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV / 43 helpful votes
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Luke 18:16 ESV / 41 helpful votes
But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Psalm 8:2 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

Psalm 113:9 ESV / 39 helpful votes
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Mark 10:14 ESV / 38 helpful votes
But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 38 helpful votes
A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 38 helpful votes
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

John 16:21 ESV / 37 helpful votes
When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Matthew 21:15-16 ESV / 37 helpful votes
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”

Genesis 33:5 ESV / 37 helpful votes
And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

John 1:12 ESV / 36 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Mark 9:37 ESV / 36 helpful votes
“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 36 helpful votes
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Matthew 18:2-6 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 34 helpful votes
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Matthew 5:9 ESV / 34 helpful votes
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 32 helpful votes
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

James 1:17 ESV / 31 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.

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

Galatians 3:26 ESV / 31 helpful votes
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

Romans 8:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 30 helpful votes
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Deuteronomy 11:19 ESV / 30 helpful votes
You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Acts 16:31 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

1 John 3:1 ESV / 26 helpful votes
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

John 3:16 ESV / 26 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Mark 9:36-37 ESV / 26 helpful votes
And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

Matthew 19:13-15 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” And he laid his hands on them and went away.

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 25 helpful votes
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

Leviticus 19:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

Hebrews 12:9-11 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Romans 8:19 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes
“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children—

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 22 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 2:2-3 ESV / 22 helpful votes
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.

2 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.

Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 22 helpful votes
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

Romans 8:15 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Luke 17:2 ESV / 21 helpful votes
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 21 helpful votes
A wise son hears his father’s instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

1 John 3:2-3 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 20 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …

1 John 5:21 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Galatians 3:26-27 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 19 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.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 18 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Luke 18:15-17 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”

Psalm 128:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

Exodus 20:5-6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
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, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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

Isaiah 38:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes
The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.

Matthew 18:1-3 ESV / 16 helpful votes
At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

Genesis 18:19 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”

Luke 2:52 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

Matthew 18:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Deuteronomy 4:40 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

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

Matthew 19:13-14 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 14 helpful votes
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

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

Proverbs 20:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!

Psalm 115:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
May the Lord give you increase, you and your children!

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

Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

Proverbs 17:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.

Deuteronomy 30:1-3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.

Aslan International Ministry – Church Leadership

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Church Leadership

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 3,397 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.

Acts 20:28 ESV / 3,027 helpful votes
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 2,862 helpful votes
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 2,690 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Matthew 20:26 ESV / 2,571 helpful votes
It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 2,350 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 2,112 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 1,827 helpful votes
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Psalm 78:72 ESV / 1,778 helpful votes
With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with his skillful hand.

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 1,763 helpful votes
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

John 3:30 ESV / 1,745 helpful votes
He must increase, but I must decrease.”

Acts 14:23 ESV / 1,657 helpful votes
And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 1,573 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.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 1,521 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 11:14 ESV / 1,511 helpful votes
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

James 3:1 ESV / 1,472 helpful votes
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

Luke 6:31 ESV / 1,471 helpful votes
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Titus 1:5 ESV / 1,463 helpful votes
This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 1,381 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 1,380 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.

Exodus 18:21 ESV / 1,376 helpful votes
Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Proverbs 16:12 ESV / 1,362 helpful votes
It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness.

Proverbs 29:2 ESV / 1,333 helpful votes
When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

1 Timothy 3:1-7 ESV / 1,290 helpful votes
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? …

Proverbs 24:10 ESV / 1,260 helpful votes
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

Luke 22:26 ESV / 1,241 helpful votes
But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.

Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV / 1,238 helpful votes
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, …

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 1,219 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 1,209 helpful votes
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Titus 1:7 ESV / 1,158 helpful votes
For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,

1 Timothy 3:1 ESV / 1,146 helpful votes
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 1,103 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Peter 5:3 ESV / 1,097 helpful votes
Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.

Philippians 2:4 ESV / 1,093 helpful votes
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

1 Peter 5:2 ESV / 1,064 helpful votes
Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly;

Romans 8:28 ESV / 1,025 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Luke 12:48 ESV / 1,018 helpful votes
But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

Mark 10:42-45 ESV / 1,011 helpful votes
And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

2 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 993 helpful votes
And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

1 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 992 helpful votes
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?

Acts 20:17 ESV / 972 helpful votes
Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him.

Acts 6:1-15 ESV / 957 helpful votes
Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. …

James 1:5 ESV / 956 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.

Romans 12:3-8 ESV / 945 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. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; …

James 1:12 ESV / 943 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Titus 1:9 ESV / 891 helpful votes
He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 864 helpful votes
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

Luke 18:27 ESV / 855 helpful votes
But he said, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.”

1 Peter 5:1-4 ESV / 854 helpful votes
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

1 Timothy 3:8-13 ESV / 846 helpful votes
Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain. They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless. Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things. Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well. …

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 840 helpful votes
Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

John 13:13-17 ESV / 831 helpful votes
You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Proverbs 29:14 ESV / 822 helpful votes
If a king faithfully judges the poor, his throne will be established forever.

1 Timothy 4:16 ESV / 801 helpful votes
Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.

2 Timothy 2:3-4 ESV / 796 helpful votes
Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.

Titus 1:6 ESV / 794 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.

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 791 helpful votes
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? …

Matthew 24:45-47 ESV / 785 helpful votes
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.

Titus 1:5-9 ESV / 778 helpful votes
This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— 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. For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 752 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 742 helpful votes
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Philippians 1:1 ESV / 730 helpful votes
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 714 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 Thessalonians 5:12-13 ESV / 703 helpful votes
We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

Acts 15:22 ESV / 696 helpful votes
Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,

1 Timothy 3:1-2 ESV / 691 helpful votes
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

1 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 686 helpful votes
Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 674 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 665 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.

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 664 helpful votes
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 659 helpful votes
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

1 Thessalonians 5:12 ESV / 657 helpful votes
We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,

James 4:10 ESV / 636 helpful votes
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Ezekiel 34:1-31 ESV / 635 helpful votes
The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep. The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. …

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 627 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.

1 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 623 helpful votes
Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

Matthew 20:25-27 ESV / 623 helpful votes
But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave,

Acts 17:11 ESV / 610 helpful votes
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Ephesians 4:11-13 ESV / 608 helpful votes
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 592 helpful votes
Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

Psalm 37:5 ESV / 583 helpful votes
Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.

1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 581 helpful votes
If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 575 helpful votes
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

Galatians 6:1-2 ESV / 572 helpful votes
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 557 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

Hebrews 13:24 ESV / 550 helpful votes
Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 549 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

James 4:17 ESV / 543 helpful votes
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 539 helpful votes
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 528 helpful votes
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Revelation 21:7 ESV / 519 helpful votes
The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

1 Timothy 3:8 ESV / 516 helpful votes
Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.

1 Timothy 3:3 ESV / 515 helpful votes
Not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 504 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 496 helpful votes
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Acts 6:3 ESV / 488 helpful votes
Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 483 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 20:31 ESV / 482 helpful votes
Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish everyone with tears.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 454 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

1 Timothy 3:2-3 ESV / 440 helpful votes
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

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 / 119 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.

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.

Amos 3:3 ESV / 58 helpful votes
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?

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 / 31 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. …

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