Category Archives: Promise

Matthew 10:34-36 ESV / 125 helpful votes “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 90 helpful votes Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.Matthew 7:12 ESV / 69 helpful votes “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 55 helpful votes Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.Ruth 1:16-18 ESV / 53 helpful votes But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.Matthew 19:9 ESV / 47 helpful votes And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”Matthew 8:14-15 ESV / 36 helpful votes And when Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and began to serve him.Psalm 27:1 ESV / 34 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?1 Timothy 5:13 ESV / 33 helpful votes 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.Romans 2:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 27 helpful votes Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.Ephesians 5:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.Mark 10:7 ESV / 25 helpful votes ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,Luke 12:53 ESV / 23 helpful votes They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”Proverbs 6:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,