Revelation 3:2-52 become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God.3 `Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.5 He who is overcoming — this one — shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers.
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Aslan International Ministry – Communication
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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.
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Closer To God
Luke 9:23 ESV / 141 helpful votes
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 116 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
James 4:8 ESV / 92 helpful votes
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
John 14:1 ESV / 77 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Jeremiah 23:23-24 ESV / 64 helpful votes
“Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.
Luke 6:27 ESV / 52 helpful votes
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Matthew 6:16-18 ESV / 51 helpful votes
“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 49 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, …
John 3:16 ESV / 42 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 37 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: …
Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 36 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. …
Psalm 32:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.
Psalm 73:28 ESV / 29 helpful votes
But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
1 Peter 2:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,
Acts 2:41 ESV / 23 helpful votes
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
Judges 20:26 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
Matthew 5:28 ESV / 21 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Pray without ceasing,
2 Kings 1:1-18 ESV / 18 helpful votes
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.” But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus says the Lord, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went. The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?” …
Acts 13:1-3 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
Colossians 3:5-10 ESV / 14 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. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices …
Acts 14:23 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 10 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— …
Philippians 3:7-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Ephesians 3:1-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. …
Mark 2:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes
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?”
John 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Colossians 3:5-15 ESV / 6 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. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices …
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Cliches
Revelation 22:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
Philippians 3:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Revelation 22:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,
Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
1 John 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For there are three that testify:
2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 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.
Hebrews 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 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 6:1 ESV / 2 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.
Acts 17:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Acts 17:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 2 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. …
John 1:1-3 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.
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. …
Matthew 27:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Matthew 24:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
Job 13:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
Ruth 1:1-22 ESV / 2 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. …
Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head. From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company. And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers. And these are the names of the men who shall assist you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; …
Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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Luke 9:23 ESV / 140 helpful votes
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 116 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
James 4:8 ESV / 92 helpful votes
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
John 14:1 ESV / 78 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Jeremiah 23:23-24 ESV / 64 helpful votes
“Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.
Luke 6:27 ESV / 52 helpful votes
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Matthew 6:16-18 ESV / 51 helpful votes
“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 49 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, …
John 3:16 ESV / 42 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 37 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: …
Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 36 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. …
Psalm 32:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.
Psalm 73:28 ESV / 29 helpful votes
But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
1 Peter 2:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,
Acts 2:41 ESV / 23 helpful votes
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
Judges 20:26 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
Matthew 5:28 ESV / 21 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Pray without ceasing,
2 Kings 1:1-18 ESV / 18 helpful votes
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.” But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus says the Lord, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went. The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?” …
Acts 13:1-3 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
Colossians 3:5-10 ESV / 14 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. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices …
Acts 14:23 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 10 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— …
Philippians 3:7-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Ephesians 3:1-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. …
Mark 2:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes
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?”
John 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Colossians 3:5-15 ESV / 6 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. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices …
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Philippians 2:14-15 ESV / 87 helpful votes
Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
Proverbs 25:12-13 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear. Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.
Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 45 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.”
Colossians 3:20 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 37 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Galatians 6:5 ESV / 35 helpful votes
For each will have to bear his own load.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 30 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. …
Exodus 20:12 ESV / 27 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 Corinthians 14:40 ESV / 25 helpful votes
But all things should be done decently and in order.
Luke 16:10 ESV / 22 helpful votes
“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
Philippians 2:14 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Do all things without grumbling or questioning,
1 Corinthians 3:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes
He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 12 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 Thessalonians 4:11-12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
James 4:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 11 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.
Psalm 51:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Galatians 6:4-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load.
Proverbs 23:24-25 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him. Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 9 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.
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Luke 10:40-42 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”
Isaiah 1:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
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.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 6 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 …
Titus 2:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 6:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.
Exodus 19:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments
Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 5 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. …
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
Matthew 5:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),
Romans 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 8:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 3:16-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 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.
John 1:1-51 ESV / 4 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. …
Matthew 11:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 4 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 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Proverbs 2:16-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed;
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Psalm 51:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
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Matthew 19:14 ESV / 63 helpful votes
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
Acts 2:39 ESV / 62 helpful votes
For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
Romans 10:9 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
1 Corinthians 7:14 ESV / 45 helpful votes
For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 45 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Acts 16:31 ESV / 43 helpful votes
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 36 helpful votes
At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, …
1 John 2:1 ESV / 28 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.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Psalm 51:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Acts 4:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
John 3:16 ESV / 19 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 Peter 2:24 ESV / 17 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.
Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Colossians 3:20 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:12-15 ESV / 16 helpful votes
To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.
John 14:6 ESV / 16 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.
1 John 5:1-21 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? …
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 14 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.
Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Romans 10:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. …
1 Peter 1:8-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
Hebrews 7:25 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Romans 8:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 8 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.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 15:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
That he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 5:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 3:16-17 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 1:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.
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 …
1 John 5:11-12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 7 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.
Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
1 Corinthians 7:12-14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Matthew 28:19 ESV / 7 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,
Psalm 62:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.
1 John 1:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Hebrews 12:5-8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
Hebrews 1:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?
Titus 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
2 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
Colossians 2:13-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
1 Corinthians 15:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
Romans 15:13 ESV / 6 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.
Romans 10:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Romans 6:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 3:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
John 6:47 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. …
Psalm 3:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Salvation belongs to the Lord; your blessing be on your people! Selah
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 2:8-10 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. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
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.
Acts 13:47 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
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.”
John 10:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
John 10:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
John 3:36 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
John 3:16-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 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.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
Mark 16:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Proverbs 3:7-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
Isaiah 59:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Aslan International Ministry – Children And Sin
Aslan International Ministry –
Children And Sin
1 John 1:9 ESV / 15 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 10:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Genesis 8:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
Genesis 4:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
John 15:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
Jonah 4:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
Psalm 51:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalm 25:7-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord! Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
2 Samuel 12:22-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
John 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”
Deuteronomy 1:38-39 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
Psalm 58:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 3 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. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
2 Samuel 17:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.
John 8:44 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful
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.
Aslan International Ministry – Children And Prayer
Aslan International Ministry –
Children And Prayer
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
John 15:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
Proverbs 14:26 ESV / 13 helpful votes
In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.
Job 1:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.
Psalm 37:25-26 ESV / 8 helpful votes
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread. He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Luke 18:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
Amos 1:1-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. And he said: “The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.” Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir,” says the Lord. …
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
Psalm 127:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Aslan International Ministry – Children And Death
Aslan International Ministry –
Children And Death
Matthew 19:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 18:3-6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 18:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.
Exodus 21:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 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 6:1-4 ESV / 2 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.
Hosea 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
Romans 8:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Hosea 9:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote
Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
2 Samuel 17:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.
Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote
“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. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.