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Aslan International Ministry – Desires

Aslan International Ministry – Desires

Desires

Psalm 37:4-5 ESV / 69 helpful votes
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 46 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Proverbs 10:24 ESV / 31 helpful votes
What the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 19 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 13:13-14 ESV / 18 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.

Psalm 20:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans!

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 11 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.

Romans 1:24-27 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. 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.

James 4:1-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. …

1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 5 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;

Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

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

John 13:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

Psalm 145:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Genesis 19:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” …

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 4 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.

Galatians 3:27-28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 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.

Psalm 145:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

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

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Aslan International Ministry – Concentration

Aslan International Ministry –  Concentration

Concentration

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 136 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 117 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Corinthians 9:25-27 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 66 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 62 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 45 helpful votes
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 37 helpful votes
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

James 4:2 ESV / 33 helpful votes
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 26 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. …

Romans 12:1 ESV / 26 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.

Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV / 19 helpful votes
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Joshua 3:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 18 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.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 ESV / 17 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.

1 Peter 2:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,

Psalm 57:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes
My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody!

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 13 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.

Matthew 6:16 ESV / 12 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.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 11 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.

Acts 13:1-52 ESV / 11 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. So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus. When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them. …

Luke 10:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road.

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. …

Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV / 9 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, 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.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 6 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.

Mark 11:1-33 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’” And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” …

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

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 3 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.

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

Acts 17:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 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.

Exodus 13:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”

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,

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 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.’”

Aslan International Ministry – Children Who Murder

Aslan International Ministry – 

Children Who Murder

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“You shall not murder.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 5 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.”

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 5 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.

Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 5 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.

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 4 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.

Exodus 21:22 ESV / 4 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.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Hosea 9:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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

Job 10:8-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust? Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Ezekiel 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.

Isaiah 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Job 31:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?

Job 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’

2 Kings 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, and he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant.

2 Kings 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.”

2 Kings 2:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

1 Samuel 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

Judges 16:25-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And when their hearts were merry, they said, “Call Samson, that he may entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison, and he entertained them. They made him stand between the pillars. And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.” Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained. Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.” And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other. …

Deuteronomy 28:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

Deuteronomy 2:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.

Numbers 31:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

Numbers 25:4-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the Lord said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the Lord, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.” And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor.” And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting. When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. …

Numbers 15:32-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. And the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”

Leviticus 27:28-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 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.

Genesis 25:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

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

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful
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.

Aslan International Ministry – Children Who Murder

Aslan International Ministry – 

Children Who Murder

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“You shall not murder.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 5 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.”

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 5 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.

Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 5 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.

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 4 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.

Exodus 21:22 ESV / 4 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.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Hosea 9:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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

Job 10:8-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust? Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Ezekiel 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.

Isaiah 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Job 31:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?

Job 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’

2 Kings 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, and he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant.

2 Kings 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.”

2 Kings 2:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

1 Samuel 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

Judges 16:25-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And when their hearts were merry, they said, “Call Samson, that he may entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison, and he entertained them. They made him stand between the pillars. And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.” Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained. Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.” And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other. …

Deuteronomy 28:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

Deuteronomy 2:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.

Numbers 31:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

Numbers 25:4-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the Lord said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the Lord, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.” And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor.” And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting. When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. …

Numbers 15:32-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. And the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”

Leviticus 27:28-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 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.

Genesis 25:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

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

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful
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.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Charity

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Charity

Acts 20:35 ESV / 634 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.’”

Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 548 helpful votes
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

Matthew 6:1-4 ESV / 465 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.

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 379 helpful votes
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Luke 21:1-4 ESV / 288 helpful votes
Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

1 John 3:17 ESV / 281 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?

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 277 helpful votes
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Luke 12:33 ESV / 243 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.

Luke 6:38 ESV / 194 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 5:42 ESV / 166 helpful votes
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 165 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 163 helpful votes
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Deuteronomy 15:7-11 ESV / 158 helpful votes
“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. 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. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. 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.’

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 147 helpful votes
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 146 helpful votes
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 107 helpful votes
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 106 helpful votes
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 102 helpful votes
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 94 helpful votes
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 94 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 89 helpful votes
Let all that you do be done in love.

Acts 9:36 ESV / 89 helpful votes
Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 88 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 87 helpful votes
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 86 helpful votes
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 82 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.

Revelation 2:19 ESV / 75 helpful votes
“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.

1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

Isaiah 58:10 ESV / 67 helpful votes
If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 65 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Luke 11:41 ESV / 64 helpful votes
But give as alms those things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.

Jude 1:12 ESV / 59 helpful votes
These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;

1 Peter 5:14 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Greet one another with the kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

James 1:27 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 58 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. …

Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Deuteronomy 15:7-8 ESV / 58 helpful votes
“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.

1 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 57 helpful votes
But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—

2 Peter 1:7 ESV / 56 helpful votes
And godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

James 2:15-16 ESV / 56 helpful votes
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 56 helpful votes
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 54 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.”

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 53 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.”

Titus 2:2 ESV / 53 helpful votes
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 51 helpful votes
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 49 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 49 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Isaiah 58:7 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Luke 3:11 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”

1 Peter 4:1-19 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. …

1 Corinthians 16:1-3 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come. And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

Matthew 19:21 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

1 John 4:19 ESV / 43 helpful votes
We love because he first loved us.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 43 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.

1 Timothy 1:1-20 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope, To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith. The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. …

Galatians 2:10 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

2 Corinthians 9:1-15 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the ministry for the saints, for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them. But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be. Otherwise, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready, we would be humiliated—to say nothing of you—for being so confident. So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction. …

Luke 19:8 ESV / 41 helpful votes
And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”

Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 40 helpful votes
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, …

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 39 helpful votes
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

1 Peter 1:1-25 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 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. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. …

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Psalm 41:1 ESV / 37 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him;

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 36 helpful votes
“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Luke 10:35 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— …

Acts 4:32-35 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.

Psalm 112:9 ESV / 34 helpful votes
He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn is exalted in honor.

1 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 33 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— …

1 Timothy 6:18 ESV / 32 helpful votes
They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 32 helpful votes
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.

2 Corinthians 8:12 ESV / 32 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.

Acts 24:17 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.

Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

Matthew 25:35 ESV / 31 helpful votes
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,

1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 30 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. …

Acts 10:31 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.

Proverbs 19:1-29 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool. Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way. When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord. Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend. A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape. …

1 John 4:8 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Proverbs 28:1-28 ESV / 28 helpful votes
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue. A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food. Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them. Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely. …

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 27 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. …

2 Peter 1:1-21 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, …

2 Timothy 3:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes
You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,

2 Timothy 2:1-26 ESV / 26 helpful votes
You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. …

2 Corinthians 9:6-7 ESV / 26 helpful votes
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

2 Corinthians 8:1-9:15 ESV / 26 helpful votes
We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. …

Mark 12:31 ESV / 26 helpful votes
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Matthew 20:28 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Luke 16:13 ESV / 25 helpful votes
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

1 Timothy 3:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless.

2 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes
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.

Proverbs 21:13-21 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered. A gift in secret averts anger, and a concealed bribe, strong wrath. When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers. One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead. Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich. …

Hebrews 13:1 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Let brotherly love continue.

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 23 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? …

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
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 …

What does Aslan International Ministry say about benevolence

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Benevolence

John 3:16 ESV / 636 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 588 helpful votes
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

James 1:27 ESV / 570 helpful votes
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

1 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 534 helpful votes
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 475 helpful votes
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

Exodus 21:10 ESV / 457 helpful votes
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 445 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 440 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 413 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? …

Luke 6:38 ESV / 397 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.”

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 391 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.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 382 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Romans 2:4 ESV / 376 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?

Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 369 helpful votes
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, …

Acts 20:35 ESV / 367 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.’”

1 Timothy 5:16 ESV / 357 helpful votes
If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 349 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.

Acts 6:4 ESV / 335 helpful votes
But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

Luke 6:31 ESV / 312 helpful votes
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Acts 11:27-30 ESV / 308 helpful votes
Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius). So the disciples determined, everyone according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea. And they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 305 helpful votes
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 303 helpful votes
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 299 helpful votes
Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Leviticus 25:35-38 ESV / 297 helpful votes
“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

James 2:14-24 ESV / 296 helpful votes
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. …

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 291 helpful votes
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

2 Corinthians 9:1 ESV / 290 helpful votes
Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the ministry for the saints,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 284 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Acts 2:44-45 ESV / 279 helpful votes
And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.

James 1:17 ESV / 277 helpful votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Matthew 25:34-46 ESV / 273 helpful votes
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? …

2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 271 helpful votes
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

Matthew 5:45 ESV / 261 helpful votes
So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 259 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.

Acts 6:1 ESV / 255 helpful votes
Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.

Ezekiel 18:7 ESV / 255 helpful votes
Does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 254 helpful votes
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 254 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. …

Acts 4:32-35 ESV / 252 helpful votes
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.

Matthew 19:21 ESV / 252 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 252 helpful votes
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Isaiah 58:7 ESV / 249 helpful votes
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 247 helpful votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Matthew 5:42 ESV / 243 helpful votes
Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

Genesis 2:3 ESV / 242 helpful votes
So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 242 helpful votes
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 241 helpful votes
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

2 Corinthians 9:13 ESV / 239 helpful votes
By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission flowing from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others,

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 239 helpful votes
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:4 ESV / 235 helpful votes
For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 235 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— …

1 Timothy 6:18 ESV / 230 helpful votes
They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

Psalm 41:1 ESV / 230 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him;

1 Timothy 5:4 ESV / 227 helpful votes
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

Isaiah 58:10 ESV / 227 helpful votes
If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

Romans 11:22 ESV / 225 helpful votes
Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.

Job 2:10 ESV / 223 helpful votes
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

2 Corinthians 8:1-9:15 ESV / 221 helpful votes
We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. …

Luke 3:11 ESV / 221 helpful votes
And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 220 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 …

Acts 4:3 ESV / 219 helpful votes
And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.

Acts 2:2 ESV / 219 helpful votes
And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

Mark 9:41 ESV / 219 helpful votes
For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 218 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?

John 17:17 ESV / 218 helpful votes
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

1 Timothy 5:9-16 ESV / 216 helpful votes
Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband, and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work. But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith. Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not. …

Acts 11:29 ESV / 215 helpful votes
So the disciples determined, everyone according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.

Proverbs 25:21 ESV / 215 helpful votes
If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,

1 Corinthians 16:1-3 ESV / 213 helpful votes
Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come. And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 211 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.

1 Corinthians 16:1-2 ESV / 211 helpful votes
Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.

Luke 11:41 ESV / 209 helpful votes
But give as alms those things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 208 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Proverbs 3:27-28 ESV / 208 helpful votes
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 197 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Revelation 21:22 ESV / 196 helpful votes
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.

Revelation 19:20 ESV / 196 helpful votes
And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Revelation 17:18 ESV / 196 helpful votes
And the woman that you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth.”

Revelation 13:14 ESV / 196 helpful votes
And by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

Revelation 11:12 ESV / 195 helpful votes
Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.

Revelation 9:10 ESV / 194 helpful votes
They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.

Revelation 5:6 ESV / 194 helpful votes
And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

Revelation 3:4 ESV / 194 helpful votes
Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

Revelation 1:2 ESV / 194 helpful votes
Who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

Matthew 1:1-17 ESV / 194 helpful votes
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, …

Psalm 1:1-3:8 ESV / 194 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; …

Exodus 25:1-40 ESV / 194 helpful votes
The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair, tanned rams’ skins, goatskins, acacia wood, …

Revelation 7:8 ESV / 193 helpful votes
12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph, 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 193 helpful votes
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

John 3:16-21 ESV / 193 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. …

1 Timothy 5:9-10 ESV / 192 helpful votes
Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband, and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.

2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 190 helpful votes
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 187 helpful votes
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

2 Corinthians 8:24 ESV / 185 helpful votes
So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 185 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …

2 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 184 helpful votes
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

1 Timothy 5:3-16 ESV / 181 helpful votes
Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives. Command these things as well, so that they may be without reproach. …

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 180 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. …

Romans 12:1 ESV / 162 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.

1 Corinthians 7:3-5 ESV / 157 helpful votes
The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about being worried

What does Aslan International Ministry say about

Being Worried

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 66 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 57 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.

Matthew 6:25 ESV / 46 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?

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 39 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.

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 36 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Hebrews 13:6 ESV / 35 helpful votes
So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 34 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 12:25 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

John 14:27 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 21 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. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Matthew 6:27 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 21 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.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 18 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 18 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.

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Luke 12:26 ESV / 16 helpful votes
If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?

Psalm 94:19 ESV / 16 helpful votes
When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.

John 14:1 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 14 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? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. …

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Matthew 6:25-27 ESV / 13 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? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

2 Thessalonians 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.

Luke 12:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.

Matthew 13:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes
As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

Isaiah 12:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”

Psalm 121:1-2 ESV / 12 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.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 10 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.

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

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

Luke 12:25 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

Luke 10:41-42 ESV / 10 helpful votes
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.”

Mark 13:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 6:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. …

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

Psalm 56:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 10 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.

Psalm 16:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

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

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

Psalm 34:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 8 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. …

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 8 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.”

Revelation 21:3-4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 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.”

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

John 16:33 ESV / 7 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.”

Luke 12:22-23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

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

Matthew 6:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Ezekiel 12:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord God concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink water in dismay. In this way her land will be stripped of all it contains, on account of the violence of all those who dwell in it.

Jeremiah 17:7-8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

Isaiah 43:1-3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. 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. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.

Isaiah 35:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Say to those who have an anxious heart, “Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.”

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 7 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 38:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.

Psalm 37:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV / 7 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.”

James 4:1-3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

1 Timothy 6:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 6 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.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 5 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.”

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 3:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,

Hebrews 13:5-6 ESV / 5 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.” So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

Philippians 4:1-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; …

2 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 5 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 12:2 ESV / 5 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.

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 5 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.

Romans 8:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Romans 8:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Acts 20:35 ESV / 5 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.’”

Luke 21:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.

Luke 12:22-34 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? …

Luke 12:22-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?

Matthew 16:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But Jesus, aware of this, said, “O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread?

Matthew 14:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”

Matthew 6:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

Jeremiah 17:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.

Isaiah 44:16-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Half of it he burns in the fire. Over the half he eats meat; he roasts it and is satisfied. Also he warms himself and says, “Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire!” And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. He prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!” They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand. No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?” He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Isaiah 42:16-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them. They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, “You are our gods.” Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see! Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the Lord?

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

Ecclesiastes 11:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Ecclesiastes 1:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Proverbs 18:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Psalm 138:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Psalm 94:18-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, …

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Psalm 46:1-3 ESV / 5 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. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah

Psalm 34:17-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

Psalm 27:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

What does Aslan International Ministry say about being proud

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Being Proud

James 4:6 ESV / 104 helpful votes
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

James 4:10 ESV / 79 helpful votes
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 62 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 57 helpful votes
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ …

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 34 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.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 32 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;

1 Peter 2:18 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.

John 8:44 ESV / 25 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.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 23 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.

Romans 13:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes
The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Exodus 20:17 ESV / 22 helpful votes
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 21 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 10:9 ESV / 20 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.

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 19 helpful votes
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 18 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.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

John 5:1-47 ESV / 17 helpful votes
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 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?” …

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 17 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, …

2 Peter 2:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

1 John 4:1 ESV / 15 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.

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 Peter 5:5 ESV / 11 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.”

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

Luke 23:34 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 8 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.”

James 1:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Romans 13:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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.

Proverbs 16:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

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

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.

John 9:1-41 ESV / 7 helpful votes
As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” …

John 5:24 ESV / 7 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.

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

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 7 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.’

Isaiah 59:1-2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 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.

Galatians 6:4 ESV / 6 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.

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 6 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. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

2 Corinthians 7:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.

Romans 12:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.

Romans 10:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 6:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 20:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;

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

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” …

Jeremiah 9:23-26 ESV / 5 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, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.” “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh— Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

Ecclesiastes 12:7-14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity. Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care. The Preacher sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote words of truth. The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. …

Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes
It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory.

Proverbs 21:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.

Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 16:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

Proverbs 6:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

2 Chronicles 12:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And when he humbled himself the wrath of the Lord turned from him, so as not to make a complete destruction. Moreover, conditions were good in Judah.

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“You shall not murder.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 4 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 …

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

Acts 26:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

John 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Luke 6:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Luke 1:39-44 ESV / 4 helpful votes
In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? …

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? …

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 4 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.

Matthew 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Proverbs 27:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Proverbs 26:12 ESV / 4 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 21:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.

Proverbs 18:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

Psalm 138:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.

Psalm 23:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2 Chronicles 32:25-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem. But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

1 Peter 5:5-7 ESV / 3 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.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

2 Corinthians 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.

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

John 1:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Luke 18:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 14:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Matthew 5:33-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’ But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

Proverbs 29:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

Psalm 131:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Of David. O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 3 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 118:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 101:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

Psalm 53:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

Psalm 10:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

Job 40:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.

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

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

John 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”

John 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 2 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.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about being perfect

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Being Perfect

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 243 helpful votes
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

James 3:2 ESV / 100 helpful votes
For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 91 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.

Matthew 19:21 ESV / 88 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 74 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

James 1:4 ESV / 69 helpful votes
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 68 helpful votes
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

1 John 2:1 ESV / 67 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 4:17 ESV / 63 helpful votes
By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.

1 John 3:6 ESV / 61 helpful votes
No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 60 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 John 3:9 ESV / 56 helpful votes
No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God.

Luke 13:3 ESV / 52 helpful votes
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

Matthew 9:13 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Romans 3:23 ESV / 50 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 14:15-16 ESV / 46 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

Hebrews 10:14 ESV / 44 helpful votes
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 40 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.

Romans 6:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

James 1:25 ESV / 36 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.

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

John 3:16 ESV / 35 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Titus 2:12 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Proverbs 11:5 ESV / 31 helpful votes
The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.

Psalm 18:30 ESV / 31 helpful votes
This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes
That the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 2:19 ESV / 29 helpful votes
But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”

Romans 6:1-2 ESV / 29 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?

James 4:17 ESV / 28 helpful votes
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

1 Peter 1:15-16 ESV / 27 helpful votes
But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Psalm 19:7 ESV / 26 helpful votes
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

Psalm 34:1-22 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together! I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. …

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Romans 7:7 ESV / 24 helpful votes
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 24 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 Samuel 22:31 ESV / 24 helpful votes
This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

Hebrews 5:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

Philippians 3:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 23 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.

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

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 20 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 Corinthians 2:6 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Colossians 1:28 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

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

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 19 helpful votes
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Deuteronomy 18:13 ESV / 19 helpful votes
You shall be blameless before the Lord your God,

Genesis 17:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Luke 6:36 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Psalm 7:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

John 1:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Genesis 6:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

2 Peter 3:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.

Philippians 2:15 ESV / 16 helpful votes
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,

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 16 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.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 16 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 6:15-16 ESV / 16 helpful votes
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 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?

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 16 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.

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

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

Hebrews 13:20-21 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

Matthew 5:45 ESV / 15 helpful votes
So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Daniel 9:3-18 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you. …

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 15 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.

Hebrews 7:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 14 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Job 1:8-2:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason? Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.” And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. …

1 John 1:7-3:9 ESV / 13 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. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. 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. …

Hebrews 2:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.

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

Ecclesiastes 7:15-26 ESV / 13 helpful votes
In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing. Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time? It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them. Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city. …

James 4:5-5:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. …

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 12 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 4:31-32 ESV / 12 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.

Ephesians 4:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Romans 12:1 ESV / 12 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.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 12 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.

Isaiah 1:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 37:37 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

Genesis 15:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

James 2:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

James 1:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Colossians 4:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

Philippians 4:6-7 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. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 2:14-16 ESV / 11 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, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

Ephesians 5:25-27 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

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.

John 14:6-16 ESV / 11 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. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. …

John 8:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes
I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”

Habakkuk 2:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
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,

What does Aslan International Ministry say about being patient

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Being Patient

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 133 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 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 118 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;

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 92 helpful votes
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Psalm 27:14 ESV / 89 helpful votes
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 86 helpful votes
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 67 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.

John 16:33 ESV / 59 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.”

Romans 12:2 ESV / 45 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.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 40 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.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 30 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 13:1-13 ESV / 22 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …

Romans 12:12 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Romans 8:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

John 14:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Psalm 37:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Romans 8:29 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

John 11:25-26 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

Matthew 24:30 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

James 5:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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

John 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 19:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Luke 23:43 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

James 5:7-8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

James 1:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Romans 13:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

John 14:6 ESV / 9 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.

Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 9 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?’ …

Revelation 20:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

1 John 2:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV / 8 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, …

Luke 1:1-80 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught. In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. …

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. …

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 8 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.

Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. …

Hebrews 6:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
So that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

Hebrews 10:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

1 Thessalonians 5:13-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 6 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.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 6 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.

Psalm 40:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.

1 Timothy 1:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 5 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, …

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

John 3:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
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 8:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.

Matthew 3:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Habakkuk 2:2-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.

Isaiah 30:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Psalm 86:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Exodus 14:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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.”

Jude 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

2 Peter 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

James 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.

James 1:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

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

Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 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 3:1-25 ESV / 4 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 1:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy,

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Romans 5:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

Romans 5:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

Romans 2:4 ESV / 4 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?

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Hosea 13:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

Isaiah 60:1-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Lift up your eyes all around, and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried on the hip. Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you. …

Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Proverbs 25:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Psalm 37:7-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices! Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.

Revelation 14:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

2 Peter 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,

James 5:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

James 1:19-20 ESV / 3 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.

James 1:2-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
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.

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 3 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.

Hebrews 6:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.

Ephesians 4:1-3 ESV / 3 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.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 3 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.

Romans 15:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

Romans 15:4-5 ESV / 3 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. May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

Romans 8:24-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

John 8:44 ESV / 3 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 24:42 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.