Colossians 2:16-2316 Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,17 which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body [is] of the Christ;18 let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and [in] worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,19 and not holding the head, from which all the body — through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together — may increase with the increase of God.20 If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?21 — thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle –22 which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,23 which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body — not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.
Two men went up to the temple to pray, – ASLAN International Ministry
Luke 18:10-1410 `Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer;11 the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things — as many as I possess.13 `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me — the sinner!14 I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.’
Matthew 5:27-30 – ASLAN International Ministry
Matthew 5:27-3027 `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery;28 but I — I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.29 `But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.30 `And, if thy right hand doth cause thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.
and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, – ASLAN International Ministry
James 4:6-126 and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?’7 be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;8 draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!9 be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;10 be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.11 Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;12 one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou — who art thou that dost judge the other?
So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear – ASLAN International Ministry
James 1:19-2719 So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,20 for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;21 wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;22 and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,23 because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,24 for he did view himself, and hath gone away, and immediately he did forget of what kind he was;25 and he who did look into the perfect law — that of liberty, and did continue there, this one — not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work — this one shall be happy in his doing.26 If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain [is] the religion;27 religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation — unspotted to keep himself from the world.
And there were going on with him great multitudes – ASLAN International Ministry
Luke 14:25-3525 And there were going on with him great multitudes, and having turned, he said unto them,26 `If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;27 and whoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.28 `For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expense, whether he have the things for completing?29 lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him,30 saying — This man began to build, and was not able to finish.31 `Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him?32 and if not so — he being yet a long way off — having sent an embassy, he doth ask the things for peace.33 `So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.34 `The salt [is] good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?35 neither for land nor for manure is it fit — they cast it without. He who is having ears to hear — let him hear.’
Aslan International Ministry – Competence
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Competence
2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 34 helpful votes
That the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 31 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.
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,
Proverbs 3:21 ESV / 15 helpful votes
My son, do not lose sight of these— keep sound wisdom and discretion,
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Psalm 1:1-36:1 ESV / 11 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; …
Leviticus 18:1-30 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord. …
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 9 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.
Genesis 1:28 ESV / 9 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.”
Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
Genesis 1:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 2:1-26 ESV / 5 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. …
Romans 6:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. …
Exodus 31:1-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. …
1 Thessalonians 2:1-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. …
1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 4 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.
Matthew 10:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.
Psalm 136:1-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever; …
Psalm 44:1-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old: you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free; for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them. You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob! Through you we push down our foes; through your name we tread down those who rise up against us. …
1 Kings 14:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
Exodus 23:4-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.
1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
Romans 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, …
Acts 15:1-41 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.” …
John 6:1-71 ESV / 3 helpful votes
After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” …
Matthew 28:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 2:1-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet: …
Psalm 114:1-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back. The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back? …
Psalm 37:1-40 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. 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. …
Exodus 21:1-23:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ …
Revelation 19:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants.” Once more they cried out, “Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up forever and ever.” And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!” And from the throne came a voice saying, “Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.” …
Revelation 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. 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. The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. …
Jude 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
Hebrews 9:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant. Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. …
2 Timothy 3:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. …
1 Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. …
Romans 16:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well. Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well. Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia. …
Acts 21:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied.
Acts 17:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
John 18:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
John 15:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
John 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
Luke 10:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
Mark 10:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.
Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 19:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
Matthew 11:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;
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.’”
Daniel 7:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. The first was like a lion and had eagles’ wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it. And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’ …
Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
Exodus 20:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
“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.”
Aslan International Ministry – Compensation
Aslan International Ministry –
Compensation
James 5:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
1 Timothy 5:18 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”
1 Timothy 5:17-18 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Exodus 21:32 ESV / 13 helpful votes
If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Luke 10:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house.
Exodus 22:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Exodus 21:34 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The owner of the pit shall make restoration. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.
Exodus 21:30 ESV / 11 helpful votes
If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
John 21:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish.
John 15:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Proverbs 6:35 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Deuteronomy 22:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.
Leviticus 6:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
If he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found
Exodus 21:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Exodus 21:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.
2 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. …
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Deuteronomy 22:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,
Deuteronomy 22:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.
Deuteronomy 22:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him,
Deuteronomy 22:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, “I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity.” And yet this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city.
Deuteronomy 22:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her;
Deuteronomy 22:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.
Deuteronomy 22:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, ‘I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity,’
Deuteronomy 22:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her
Leviticus 6:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt.
Leviticus 6:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby—
Leviticus 6:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor
Leviticus 6:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Exodus 22:7-9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“If a man gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen from the man’s house, then, if the thief is found, he shall pay double. If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property. For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before God. The one whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
Exodus 22:5-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard. “If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.
Exodus 21:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
Exodus 21:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.
Exodus 21:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed,
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
John 10:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Matthew 25:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
Matthew 19:26 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Exodus 21:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes
If it gores a man’s son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.
Exodus 21:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.
James 1:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
Philippians 2:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
1 Corinthians 9:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, …
John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 6:38 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
Matthew 19:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But many who are first will be last, and the last first.
Deuteronomy 25:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Acts 1:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
1 Timothy 6:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.
Ephesians 6:5-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.
Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
Mark 8:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
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,
Titus 2:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.
Colossians 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …
Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Matthew 5:38-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Isaiah 59:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Deuteronomy 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the Lord, and you be guilty of sin.
Deuteronomy 15:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin.
Leviticus 19:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.
Leviticus 6:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the Lord by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby— if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt. …
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Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 534 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 422 helpful votes
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Galatians 6:2 ESV / 312 helpful votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 287 helpful votes
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 257 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Luke 10:30-35 ESV / 247 helpful votes
Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. …
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 203 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.
Matthew 9:36-38 ESV / 186 helpful votes
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 152 helpful votes
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:
1 John 3:17 ESV / 142 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?
1 Thessalonians 5:11-14 ESV / 128 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
Matthew 5:9 ESV / 113 helpful votes
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Zechariah 7:8-10 ESV / 108 helpful votes
And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
Matthew 9:36 ESV / 100 helpful votes
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Psalm 86:15 ESV / 97 helpful votes
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
Mark 6:34 ESV / 91 helpful votes
When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.
Romans 12:15 ESV / 89 helpful votes
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
Deuteronomy 16:17 ESV / 81 helpful votes
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.
Matthew 14:14 ESV / 79 helpful votes
When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
Psalm 103:13 ESV / 77 helpful votes
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
Psalm 112:4 ESV / 72 helpful votes
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous.
Galatians 2:10 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
Luke 22:27 ESV / 70 helpful votes
For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves.
Zechariah 7:9 ESV / 67 helpful votes
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
1 Peter 5:3-5 ESV / 63 helpful votes
Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. 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.”
Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 62 helpful votes
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Zechariah 7:10 ESV / 62 helpful votes
Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
Isaiah 30:18 ESV / 62 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.
Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV / 59 helpful votes
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 57 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.
Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
2 Timothy 2:24 ESV / 55 helpful votes
And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,
Zechariah 7:9-10 ESV / 53 helpful votes
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
Colossians 3:15 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Romans 12:13 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Psalm 51:1 ESV / 51 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
Luke 7:13 ESV / 49 helpful votes
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.”
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 47 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Psalm 111:4 ESV / 47 helpful votes
He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and merciful.
James 1:27 ESV / 45 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.
Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 45 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.
Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 45 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.
Micah 6:8 ESV / 45 helpful votes
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
James 5:11 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
Exodus 33:19 ESV / 44 helpful votes
And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
2 Corinthians 2:7-9 ESV / 42 helpful votes
So you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.
1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 41 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.
Luke 10:33 ESV / 40 helpful votes
But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.
Psalm 116:5 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; our God is merciful.
Luke 15:20 ESV / 39 helpful votes
And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
Romans 12:20 ESV / 38 helpful votes
To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Luke 7:13-15 ESV / 38 helpful votes
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.
Psalm 23:6 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 38 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.”
Romans 14:12-13 ESV / 37 helpful votes
So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Romans 12:12 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Psalm 86:1-17 ESV / 37 helpful votes
A Prayer of David. Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. Preserve my life, for I am godly; save your servant, who trusts in you—you are my God. Be gracious to me, O Lord, for to you do I cry all the day. Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. …
Romans 12:17 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.
Psalm 103:8 ESV / 35 helpful votes
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Matthew 20:34 ESV / 34 helpful votes
And Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and immediately they recovered their sight and followed him.
Psalm 119:77 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
2 Corinthians 2:7 ESV / 33 helpful votes
So you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
Luke 15:10 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
1 John 4:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
2 Timothy 2:25 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
1 Timothy 5:22 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.
1 Corinthians 12:25-26 ESV / 32 helpful votes
That there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
Matthew 19:16 ESV / 32 helpful votes
And behold, a man came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?”
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 112:5 ESV / 32 helpful votes
It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.
Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 31 helpful votes
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Philippians 4:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Mark 8:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes
“I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.
Hebrews 10:34 ESV / 29 helpful votes
For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
John 7:24 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”
John 16:33 ESV / 28 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 6:36 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
Mark 1:41 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.”
Psalm 145:9 ESV / 28 helpful votes
The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.
James 1:22 ESV / 27 helpful votes
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Ephesians 4:23 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
Ephesians 4:21-32 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 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. Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. …
Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
Acts 4:34-35 ESV / 26 helpful votes
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 18:26-27 ESV / 26 helpful votes
So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt.
Lamentations 3:32 ESV / 26 helpful votes
But, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
Psalm 145:8 ESV / 26 helpful votes
The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 26 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. …
Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 25 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?” …
Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 25 helpful votes
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Jude 1:22 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And have mercy on those who doubt;
Ephesians 4:28-30 ESV / 24 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. 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. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
2 Corinthians 1:1-24 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. …
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Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 332 helpful votes
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Mark 6:34 ESV / 253 helpful votes
When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.
Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 186 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.
Galatians 6:2 ESV / 169 helpful votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 155 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
Genesis 6:6 ESV / 130 helpful votes
And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
Matthew 14:14 ESV / 120 helpful votes
When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 106 helpful votes
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
1 John 3:17 ESV / 102 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?
Matthew 9:36 ESV / 99 helpful votes
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Psalm 86:15 ESV / 83 helpful votes
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 79 helpful votes
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 68 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.
Isaiah 49:15 ESV / 66 helpful votes
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 61 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.
Romans 12:15 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV / 54 helpful votes
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Psalm 103:13 ESV / 53 helpful votes
As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 51 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 8:1 ESV / 45 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Isaiah 30:18 ESV / 41 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.
Luke 15:20 ESV / 40 helpful votes
And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
Psalm 78:38 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.
Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 38 helpful votes
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Luke 7:13 ESV / 38 helpful votes
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.”
Psalm 103:2-4 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
Exodus 33:19 ESV / 37 helpful votes
And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.
Romans 12:20 ESV / 33 helpful votes
To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
John 16:33 ESV / 33 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.”
James 1:27 ESV / 32 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 John 1:9 ESV / 31 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Zechariah 7:9-10 ESV / 31 helpful votes
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
Psalm 116:5 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; our God is merciful.
Psalm 111:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes
He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and merciful.
1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 29 helpful votes
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:
Matthew 20:34 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and immediately they recovered their sight and followed him.
Psalm 51:1 ESV / 29 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
James 5:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 28 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Micah 6:8 ESV / 28 helpful votes
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 26 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 103:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 24 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?” …
Luke 7:1-50 ESV / 24 helpful votes
After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” …
Mark 1:41 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.”
Psalm 112:4 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous.
Deuteronomy 30:3 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
Exodus 2:6 ESV / 23 helpful votes
When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 22 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Luke 6:36 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
Matthew 5:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Psalm 145:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes
The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Exodus 22:27 ESV / 22 helpful votes
For that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
Jude 1:22 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And have mercy on those who doubt;
Mark 8:2 ESV / 21 helpful votes
“I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.
Deuteronomy 13:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes
None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,
Hebrews 10:34 ESV / 20 helpful votes
For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
Matthew 28:20 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 14:13-21 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.” They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.” …
Zechariah 7:10 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
Zechariah 7:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Zechariah 7:8-10 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”
Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
Psalm 119:77 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. …
Job 6:14 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Deuteronomy 28:54 ESV / 20 helpful votes
The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,
James 2:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
1 Corinthians 12:25-26 ESV / 19 helpful votes
That there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
1 Corinthians 10:24 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
Luke 19:41-42 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
Luke 10:33 ESV / 19 helpful votes
But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.
Luke 7:13-15 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.
Lamentations 3:32 ESV / 19 helpful votes
But, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Matthew 10:42 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
Matthew 9:36-38 ESV / 17 helpful votes
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
Proverbs 11:24-25 ESV / 17 helpful votes
One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.
Psalm 119:156 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Great is your mercy, O Lord; give me life according to your rules.
Psalm 77:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 17 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. …
Titus 2:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Proverbs 31:8-9 ESV / 16 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.
Hebrews 13:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
1 Thessalonians 5:11-14 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
Matthew 15:32 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”
Isaiah 63:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord, the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel that he has granted them according to his compassion, according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
Deuteronomy 16:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.
Hebrews 1:14 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?
2 Corinthians 1:1-24 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. …
Romans 9:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Luke 10:30-37 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. …
Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
Isaiah 49:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.
Isaiah 49:10 ESV / 13 helpful votes
They shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them.
Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. …
Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 11 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. …
Luke 10:30-35 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. …