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Example To Others

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 233 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.

Titus 2:7 ESV / 138 helpful votes
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 105 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.

John 3:16-21 ESV / 52 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. …

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Philippians 3:17 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 24 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. …

Proverbs 6:23 ESV / 22 helpful votes
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Matthew 23:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes
So practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 16 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Thessalonians 1:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes
So that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ESV / 12 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.

2 Corinthians 5:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

John 13:35 ESV / 9 helpful votes
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

3 John 1:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

1 Peter 5:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.

1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

James 3:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Ephesians 5:8-9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),

Romans 13:13-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Matthew 7:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

Proverbs 3:34 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.

Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 7 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.

Romans 15:5-6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

2 Thessalonians 3:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.

1 Corinthians 6:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Acts 20:35 ESV / 6 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.’”

Ecclesiastes 10:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ESV / 6 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; …

Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 5 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 6:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Isaiah 40:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

1 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 4 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.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

John 15:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

John 13:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

Luke 6:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Psalm 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

Genesis 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 3 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?

James 1:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

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

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.

Romans 12:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

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

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

John 11:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus wept.

Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 John 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 2 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,

Titus 3:8 ESV / 2 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.

1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 2 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,

1 Thessalonians 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

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

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

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

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

2 Corinthians 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

Romans 12:8 ESV / 2 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.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. …

Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ …

Luke 6:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Mark 10:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
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.’

Aslan International Ministry – Encouraging Each Other

Aslan International Ministry –

Encouraging Each Other

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 1,054 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Hebrews 10:23-25 ESV / 531 helpful votes
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. 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.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 463 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.

1 Peter 4:8-10 ESV / 445 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 342 helpful votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 320 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.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 314 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.

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 292 helpful votes
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 260 helpful votes
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

Proverbs 12:25 ESV / 231 helpful votes
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 213 helpful votes
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 207 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.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 201 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.

Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 200 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.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 187 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

John 16:33 ESV / 156 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.”

Acts 15:32 ESV / 155 helpful votes
And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.

Romans 15:5 ESV / 141 helpful votes
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 137 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.

Colossians 2:2 ESV / 123 helpful votes
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,

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 121 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Romans 8:28 ESV / 108 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

John 14:27 ESV / 107 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.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 100 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 98 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.

1 Thessalonians 4:18 ESV / 95 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 95 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Proverbs 10:11 ESV / 91 helpful votes
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Romans 15:4 ESV / 89 helpful votes
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 88 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Isaiah 43:2 ESV / 85 helpful votes
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 85 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Romans 14:19 ESV / 82 helpful votes
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Ephesians 4:12 ESV / 79 helpful votes
To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Romans 15:2 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 75 helpful votes
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 74 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.

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 73 helpful votes
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Romans 8:31 ESV / 73 helpful votes
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV / 70 helpful votes
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 69 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 67 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Titus 1:9 ESV / 66 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.

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 65 helpful votes
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 64 helpful votes
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

2 Corinthians 4:17 ESV / 61 helpful votes
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 59 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 11:25 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

John 3:16 ESV / 52 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Thessalonians 3:2 ESV / 51 helpful votes
And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Luke 12:6-7 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Acts 4:36 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus,

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Psalm 121:1-2 ESV / 50 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 48 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.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Psalm 133:1 ESV / 48 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

Colossians 4:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes
I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts,

Hebrews 10:19-25 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. …

2 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 44 helpful votes
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. …

Philippians 2:1 ESV / 43 helpful votes
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,

2 Corinthians 8:12 ESV / 43 helpful votes
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

Romans 1:11 ESV / 42 helpful votes
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—

Isaiah 43:4 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 41 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Thessalonians 2:11 ESV / 41 helpful votes
For you know how, like a father with his children,

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 40 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 14:1-40 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. …

1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 38 helpful votes
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 38 helpful votes
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Psalm 90:17 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!

Acts 14:22 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 37 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.

1 Peter 5:6 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 36 helpful votes
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

2 Peter 1:12 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.

Acts 15:31 ESV / 33 helpful votes
And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.

1 John 3:2 ESV / 32 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.

Matthew 11:28-29 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 32 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.”

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 31 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,

Acts 27:36 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Then they all were encouraged and ate some food themselves.

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 29 helpful votes
From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalm 16:8 ESV / 28 helpful votes
I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

Proverbs 18:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

Psalm 121:1-8 ESV / 27 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. …

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 26 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.”

Revelation 1:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes
That the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

Aslan International Ministry – Eat With Sinners

Aslan International Ministry –

Eat With Sinners

1 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 85 helpful votes
But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

Luke 15:1-32 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. …

Mark 2:16 ESV / 40 helpful votes
And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Luke 19:10 ESV / 34 helpful votes
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Luke 15:2 ESV / 33 helpful votes
And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”

Proverbs 24:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them,

Luke 5:30 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 7:34 ESV / 20 helpful votes
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 18 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. …

Matthew 9:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 13 helpful votes
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. …

Matthew 11:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”

Mark 2:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 10 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.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Mark 2:1-28 ESV / 10 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.” …

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

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

John 3:16-17 ESV / 9 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.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 8 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.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 8 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Ruth 1:1-22 ESV / 8 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. …

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, …

Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 7 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, …

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 7 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.

1 Corinthians 5:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—

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.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …

Luke 19:5-7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully. And when they saw it, they all grumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”

Luke 15:1-2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”

Luke 5:1-39 ESV / 7 helpful votes
On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” …

Luke 1:37 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Hosea 6:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Titus 1:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— …

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 6 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 2:1-30 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, …

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Acts 2:38 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 3:16 ESV / 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 7:1-50 ESV / 6 helpful votes
After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” …

Mark 2:15-22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. …

Mark 2:13-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Colossians 3:5-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 5 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.

1 Corinthians 15:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

1 Corinthians 10:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”

1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, …

1 Corinthians 5:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?

Romans 2:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Romans 1:16 ESV / 5 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.

John 6:35 ESV / 5 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.

John 6:27 ESV / 5 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.”

Luke 19:1-48 ESV / 5 helpful votes
He entered Jericho and was passing through. And there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small of stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” …

Luke 15:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”

Luke 15:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

Luke 15:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
So he told them this parable:

Luke 14:1-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes
One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” …

Luke 5:33-39 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. …

Mark 10:45 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Matthew 9:14-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”

Ezekiel 33:1-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman, and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. …

1 John 1:7-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

1 Peter 2:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.

1 Peter 2:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Timothy 1:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

1 Corinthians 9:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. This is my defense to those who would examine me. Do we not have the right to eat and drink? Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? …

1 Corinthians 5:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. …

John 17:1-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. …

John 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

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

Luke 15:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

Mark 2:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.

Mark 2:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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.

Matthew 9:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

Matthew 9:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 9:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.

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.

Matthew 6:25 ESV / 4 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?

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 4 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. …

Matthew 5:46 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 4 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.’”

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 4 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.

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 4 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. …

Proverbs 28:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
And put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Aslan International Ministry – Ears

Aslan International Ministry –

Ears

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 75 helpful votes
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

Mark 4:23-24 ESV / 56 helpful votes
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.

Luke 1:44 ESV / 48 helpful votes
For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 42 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 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 …

Isaiah 33:15-16 ESV / 35 helpful votes
He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil, he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Proverbs 20:12 ESV / 33 helpful votes
The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.

Isaiah 30:21 ESV / 32 helpful votes
And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 28 helpful votes
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

John 8:43 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

Proverbs 25:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

Matthew 13:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

Zechariah 7:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.

Isaiah 43:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!

Romans 12:2 ESV / 19 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.

Ezekiel 16:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

Isaiah 6:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

Proverbs 15:31 ESV / 17 helpful votes
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.

Psalm 58:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

Deuteronomy 29:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.

1 Timothy 4:1-3 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Mark 4:23 ESV / 16 helpful votes
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Isaiah 35:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped;

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 16 helpful votes
An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Exodus 21:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

Revelation 3:22 ESV / 15 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”

Matthew 13:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.

Job 33:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings,

Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 15 helpful votes
You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

Matthew 13:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes
He who has ears, let him hear.”

Matthew 11:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Jeremiah 35:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, ‘Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.’ But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.

Jeremiah 7:24 ESV / 14 helpful votes
But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

Proverbs 2:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;

Job 36:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.

Revelation 2:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

Acts 7:51 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

Luke 22:51 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But Jesus said, “No more of this!” And he touched his ear and healed him.

Mark 8:18 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 12 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 6:19-20 ESV / 11 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 4:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Deuteronomy 15:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same.

Exodus 29:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And you shall kill the ram and take part of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet, and throw the rest of the blood against the sides of the altar.

Revelation 3:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

2 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

Luke 14:35 ESV / 10 helpful votes
It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Mark 7:35 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

Jeremiah 6:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.

Isaiah 43:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.

Psalm 40:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

Job 12:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 10 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.”

Leviticus 8:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And he killed it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Revelation 2:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’

Acts 28:27 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

Psalm 34:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.

Revelation 3:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

Revelation 2:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’

1 Corinthians 12:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— …

Acts 7:57 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.

Luke 8:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Matthew 13:43 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

1 Samuel 1:1-28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord. On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb. …

Leviticus 14:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Revelation 2:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

Romans 6:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Mark 4:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Proverbs 5:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,

Psalm 94:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?

Psalm 18:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

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

1 John 5:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

1 John 5:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

2 Timothy 3:1-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. …

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Matthew 6:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,

Ezekiel 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 8:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”

Isaiah 1:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Deuteronomy 14:1 ESV / 6 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.

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

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 5 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.

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

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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

Jeremiah 9:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Hear, O women, the word of the Lord, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.

Job 13:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

James 5:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

James 1:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

James 1:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Aslan International Ministry – Doing Your Best

Doing Your Best

Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 1,002 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 469 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

1 Corinthians 9:24-25 ESV / 362 helpful votes
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 354 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.

Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 313 helpful votes
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 249 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Titus 2:7 ESV / 227 helpful votes
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 227 helpful votes
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 203 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Proverbs 10:4-5 ESV / 149 helpful votes
A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 147 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Titus 3:1-2 ESV / 138 helpful votes
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 114 helpful votes
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 109 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 6:4 ESV / 101 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.

Romans 2:6 ESV / 90 helpful votes
He will render to each one according to his works:

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 86 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

John 3:16 ESV / 84 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 18:8-9 ESV / 77 helpful votes
And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 77 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 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 69 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Luke 6:46 ESV / 65 helpful votes
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 65 helpful votes
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 63 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 59 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 12:24 ESV / 59 helpful votes
The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 59 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.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 57 helpful votes
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 56 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 53 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

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

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 50 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 47 helpful votes
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Colossians 3:24 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 45 helpful votes
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

1 Timothy 4:10 ESV / 44 helpful votes
For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 44 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.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 44 helpful votes
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Luke 6:31 ESV / 43 helpful votes
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 42 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 7:38 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

Psalm 90:17 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Let all that you do be done in love.

2 Timothy 2:6-7 ESV / 37 helpful votes
It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

Acts 1:8 ESV / 37 helpful votes
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 36 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

John 1:1 ESV / 35 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 35 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. …

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

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 33 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.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 32 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 32 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.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

James 5:16 ESV / 29 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.

Colossians 4:1 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 29 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.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 29 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 29 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.’”

James 5:4 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 28 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.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Galatians 6:6-8 ESV / 28 helpful votes
One who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches. Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

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

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 27 helpful votes
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

John 14:6 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 27 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.”

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 27 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.’

Proverbs 12:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes
From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man’s hand comes back to him.

2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 ESV / 26 helpful votes
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Deuteronomy 24:14 ESV / 25 helpful votes
“You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 25 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. …

1 Peter 4:11 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

Romans 3:23 ESV / 22 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 15:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 22 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 22 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.

Ecclesiastes 10:10 ESV / 22 helpful votes
If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.

Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

Colossians 3:22 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Mark 14:38 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

2 Timothy 3:1-17 ESV / 20 helpful votes
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. …

Luke 1:37 ESV / 20 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 19 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 19 helpful votes
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Aslan International Ministry – Conceit

Aslan International Ministry –

Conceit

Jeremiah 9:23 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,

Romans 12:16 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

Philippians 2:1-11 ESV / 31 helpful votes
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, …

Proverbs 26:12 ESV / 29 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 3:5 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Romans 1:22 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 21 helpful votes
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Isaiah 5:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!

Proverbs 26:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Galatians 6:3-4 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

Luke 18:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes
I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’

Proverbs 26:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.

Proverbs 23:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.

Proverbs 28:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.

Luke 18:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
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.

Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

1 Timothy 6:2-5 ESV / 11 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. If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 11 helpful votes
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, …

Romans 11:25 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Lest you be wise in your own sight, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Amos 9:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

Job 24:1-25 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days? Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge. They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves. Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children. …

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Job 7:1-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn. My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh. …

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

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

John 3:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Job 21:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

1 Kings 2:1-46 ESV / 7 helpful votes
When David’s time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying, “I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn, that the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’ “Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war on the belt around his waist and on the sandals on his feet. …

Acts 7:1-60 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” And Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, and said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’ Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living. Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child. …

Job 11:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

1 Samuel 2:1-36 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. “There is none holy like the Lord; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God. Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble bind on strength. Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn. …

Judges 9:1-57 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family, “Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.” And his mother’s relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.” And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him. And he went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself. …

1 Corinthians 5:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
You are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

1 Kings 11:43 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 11:1-43 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. …

Aslan International Ministry – Compensation

Aslan International Ministry –

Compensation

James 5:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

1 Timothy 5:18 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”

1 Timothy 5:17-18 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Exodus 21:32 ESV / 13 helpful votes
If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Luke 10:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house.

Exodus 22:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

Exodus 21:34 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The owner of the pit shall make restoration. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.

Exodus 21:30 ESV / 11 helpful votes
If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 9 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.”

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

John 21:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish.

John 15:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Proverbs 6:35 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Deuteronomy 22:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.

Leviticus 6:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
If he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found

Exodus 21:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.

Exodus 21:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.

2 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 8 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. …

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Deuteronomy 22:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

Deuteronomy 22:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.

Deuteronomy 22:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him,

Deuteronomy 22:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, “I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity.” And yet this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city.

Deuteronomy 22:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her;

Deuteronomy 22:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

Deuteronomy 22:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, ‘I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity,’

Deuteronomy 22:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her

Leviticus 6:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt.

Leviticus 6:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby—

Leviticus 6:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor

Leviticus 6:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Exodus 22:7-9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“If a man gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen from the man’s house, then, if the thief is found, he shall pay double. If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property. For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before God. The one whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

Exodus 22:5-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard. “If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.

Exodus 21:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

Exodus 21:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.

Exodus 21:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed,

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 7 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 …

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

John 10:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Matthew 25:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Exodus 21:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes
If it gores a man’s son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.

Exodus 21:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

James 1:12 ESV / 6 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.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

1 Corinthians 9:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, …

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 6:38 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Matthew 19:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

Deuteronomy 25:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

Acts 1:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

1 Timothy 6:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. 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.

Ephesians 6:5-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 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. …

Mark 8:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Titus 2:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

Colossians 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 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 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Matthew 5:38-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Isaiah 59:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Deuteronomy 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the Lord, and you be guilty of sin.

Deuteronomy 15:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin.

Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Leviticus 6:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt. …

Aslan International Ministry – Communication

Aslan International Ministry –

Communication

James 1:19 ESV / 550 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 429 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 15:1 ESV / 372 helpful votes
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Psalm 141:3 ESV / 261 helpful votes
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 254 helpful votes
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 220 helpful votes
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 15:2 ESV / 207 helpful votes
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

Psalm 19:14 ESV / 195 helpful votes
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Proverbs 18:2 ESV / 189 helpful votes
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

2 Timothy 2:16 ESV / 172 helpful votes
But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 166 helpful votes
If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 154 helpful votes
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 144 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Proverbs 10:19 ESV / 137 helpful votes
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Proverbs 16:23 ESV / 132 helpful votes
The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips.

Jeremiah 1:9 ESV / 109 helpful votes
Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

Proverbs 18:21 ESV / 105 helpful votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Proverbs 13:17 ESV / 103 helpful votes
A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 95 helpful votes
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 95 helpful votes
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 89 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Matthew 15:18-19 ESV / 87 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.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 79 helpful votes
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Proverbs 18:20-21 ESV / 74 helpful votes
From the fruit of a man’s mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 69 helpful votes
A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 67 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.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 60 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.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 60 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Proverbs 15:28 ESV / 58 helpful votes
The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

Matthew 12:34 ESV / 57 helpful votes
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Amos 3:7 ESV / 57 helpful votes
“For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

James 1:26 ESV / 55 helpful votes
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.

Proverbs 18:17 ESV / 55 helpful votes
The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.

Proverbs 20:3 ESV / 52 helpful votes
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

Matthew 12:36 ESV / 49 helpful votes
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

Proverbs 29:20 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 47 helpful votes
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Titus 3:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes
To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.

Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Romans 14:19 ESV / 41 helpful votes
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

3 John 1:13-14 ESV / 40 helpful votes
I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink. I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 38 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 37 helpful votes
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 36 helpful votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Proverbs 17:27 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; …

James 1:19-20 ESV / 34 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.

2 Corinthians 6:11-13 ESV / 34 helpful votes
We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections. In return (I speak as to children) widen your hearts also.

Deuteronomy 4:32 ESV / 34 helpful votes
“For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.

Hebrews 1:1-3 ESV / 33 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,

Mark 10:9 ESV / 33 helpful votes
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Proverbs 11:12 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.

James 1:5 ESV / 32 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.

Ephesians 5:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 12:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes
The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.

Proverbs 6:2-5 ESV / 31 helpful votes
If you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Psalm 37:30 ESV / 31 helpful votes
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

James 3:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes
But no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

John 8:44 ESV / 30 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.

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 30 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.”

Matthew 12:37 ESV / 30 helpful votes
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Proverbs 27:5-6 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Proverbs 20:19 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 29 helpful votes
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 29 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.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 29 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

John 14:26 ESV / 29 helpful votes
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

Proverbs 29:22 ESV / 29 helpful votes
A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.

Proverbs 11:9 ESV / 29 helpful votes
With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

John 15:26 ESV / 28 helpful votes
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 28 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.

Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.

Proverbs 18:8 ESV / 28 helpful votes
The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

James 4:11-12 ESV / 27 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. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

Romans 1:20 ESV / 27 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.

Song of Solomon 2:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes
O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the crannies of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

Proverbs 16:13 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Righteous lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.

Proverbs 12:25 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Proverbs 17:28 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

James 5:16 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

James 3:18 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Hebrews 4:12-13 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Mark 11:25 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Proverbs 10:29 ESV / 22 helpful votes
The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers.

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.

Lamentations 4:1-22 ESV / 19 helpful votes
How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street. The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen pots, the work of a potter’s hands! Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them. Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps. …

Genesis 3:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

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 – Children Being Obedient

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Children Being Obedient

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 88 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 81 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 65 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Matthew 15:4 ESV / 53 helpful votes
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 27:16 ESV / 33 helpful votes
“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Exodus 21:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes
“Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Mark 7:10 ESV / 28 helpful votes
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

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

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

1 John 2:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes
But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

Romans 5:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

John 14:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

1 John 2:15 ESV / 12 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.

James 4:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.

Luke 11:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

Luke 2:51 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

2 John 1:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 10 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.”

1 Samuel 15:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 9 helpful votes
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: …

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 9 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.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Acts 5:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,

Exodus 19:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;

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 1:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

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

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Romans 1:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,

Acts 5:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Colossians 3:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Ephesians 6:2-3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Romans 12:2 ESV / 7 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 14:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

Isaiah 1:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

Joshua 5:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord; the Lord swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
That the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

John 15:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Psalm 119:60 ESV / 6 helpful votes
I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments.

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

Job 36:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.

Deuteronomy 28:1 ESV / 6 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.

Deuteronomy 21:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,

1 John 2:3-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

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

1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

James 1:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Hebrews 5:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

Ephesians 6:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Romans 13:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 6:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

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

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 5 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.

Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Psalm 19:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Philemon 1:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Romans 2:6-8 ESV / 4 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.

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

Proverbs 20:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 4 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.

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

Genesis 22:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”

Hebrews 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.

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

Ephesians 6:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 3 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.

John 16:21 ESV / 3 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.

Mark 10:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”

Jeremiah 7:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

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

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

Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 13:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded.