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What does Aslan International Ministry say about Breaking bad habits

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Breaking Bad Habits

Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV / 382 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.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 368 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.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 186 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 186 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.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 147 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 142 helpful votes
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 125 helpful votes
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

James 1:12 ESV / 125 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.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 88 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 84 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

Romans 12:2 ESV / 80 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.

Ephesians 4:27 ESV / 79 helpful votes
And give no opportunity to the devil.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

James 5:16 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Colossians 3:5-17 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices …

Luke 6:46 ESV / 75 helpful votes
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?

James 1:22-25 ESV / 72 helpful votes
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 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.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 68 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Psalm 1:2 ESV / 65 helpful votes
But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 58 helpful votes
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

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.

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 56 helpful votes
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. …

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 50 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 John 5:3 ESV / 49 helpful votes
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

1 John 1:8-2:2 ESV / 48 helpful votes
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. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

John 3:16 ESV / 43 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.

Acts 8:22 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

1 John 3:4 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

1 John 2:1 ESV / 34 helpful votes
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 34 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.

Ephesians 4:22-32 ESV / 34 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. Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, …

John 14:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 30 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.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 30 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, …

Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

2 Peter 1:2 ESV / 27 helpful votes
May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

1 John 4:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 25 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Acts 22:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

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

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 23 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 23 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Romans 14:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 21 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.

James 4:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Acts 17:30 ESV / 20 helpful votes
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Luke 14:26-33 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ …

Psalm 17:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes
You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 19 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 18 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.

2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Hebrews 10:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

Acts 2:38 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. …

Romans 2:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes
To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

2 Peter 1:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.

1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
That the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

Matthew 12:43-45 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”

Matthew 6:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

1 Corinthians 15:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Romans 10:4 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Acts 11:23 ESV / 14 helpful votes
When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose,

1 John 4:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 13 helpful votes
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: …

Proverbs 15:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.

1 Peter 4:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
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.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. …

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

Colossians 2:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Romans 5:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.

Luke 19:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Galatians 5:16-17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

Romans 3:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”

Mark 16:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Isaiah 54:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

2 Peter 1:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Romans 3:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

Mark 14:71 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know this man of whom you speak.”

Matthew 26:74 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed.

Nahum 1:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
What do you plot against the Lord? He will make a complete end; trouble will not rise up a second time.

Isaiah 53:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Proverbs 16:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips.

2 Peter 1:1-21 ESV / 9 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, …

1 Peter 2:22 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.

1 Timothy 4:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

1 Timothy 3:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …

John 1:1-18 ESV / 9 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. …

Hebrews 9:22 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Breaking a Vow

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Breaking A Vow

Ecclesiastes 5:4-6 ESV / 102 helpful votes
When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

Deuteronomy 23:21-23 ESV / 91 helpful votes
“If you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin. But if you refrain from vowing, you will not be guilty of sin. You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised with your mouth.

Numbers 30:2 ESV / 66 helpful votes
If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Numbers 30:1-16 ESV / 64 helpful votes
Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the people of Israel, saying, “This is what the Lord has commanded. If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. “If a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father’s house in her youth, and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the Lord will forgive her, because her father opposed her. …

James 5:12 ESV / 53 helpful votes
But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

Matthew 5:34-37 ESV / 37 helpful votes
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.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 34 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Luke 16:18 ESV / 32 helpful votes
“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Numbers 30:1-2 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the people of Israel, saying, “This is what the Lord has commanded. If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Matthew 5:33-37 ESV / 24 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.

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 18 helpful votes
“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Numbers 30:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes
“If she marries a husband, while under her vows or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself,

Leviticus 5:4-5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Or if anyone utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that people swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these; when he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed,

Romans 5:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

1 John 1:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Acts 18:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers and set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow.

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Galatians 5:13-25 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. …

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Galatians 3:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Ezekiel 3:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand.

Romans 12:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

John 3:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Proverbs 20:25 ESV / 8 helpful votes
It is a snare to say rashly, “It is holy,” and to reflect only after making vows.

Deuteronomy 6:13-15 ESV / 8 helpful votes
It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear. You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you— for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Numbers 6:1-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins. “All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long. …

John 8:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Matthew 10:32-33 ESV / 7 helpful votes
So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Hebrews 6:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.

Galatians 6:8-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

John 15:4-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Luke 11:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

Luke 4:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”

Judges 11:29-40 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Then the Spirit of the Lord was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites. And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.” So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the Lord gave them into his hand. And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel. …

Deuteronomy 23:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“If you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 5 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.”

Romans 13:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Romans 7:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

Acts 23:12-14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. There were more than forty who made this conspiracy. They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Judges 11:30-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.” So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the Lord gave them into his hand. And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel. Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter. …

Deuteronomy 4:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.

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

Galatians 6:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For each will have to bear his own load.

Galatians 5:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

John 8:44 ESV / 4 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.

Mark 10:2-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ …

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
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’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Matthew 7:7-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! …

Matthew 5:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,

Matthew 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.

Jonah 1:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 4 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.

Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 5:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Psalm 65:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song. Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed.

Psalm 22:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 3 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 4:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let all that you do be done in love.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

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

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 3 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 6:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 5:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.

Matthew 5:33 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.’

Malachi 1:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.

Jonah 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord!”

Song of Solomon 8:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

Ecclesiastes 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.

Ecclesiastes 5:4-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands? For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Genesis 28:20-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”

Revelation 1:1-20 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, 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 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

James 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. …

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 2:1-23 ESV / 2 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. …

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, …

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 2 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.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 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; …

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV / 2 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.

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 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

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.

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Proverbs 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about bread

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Bread

John 6:32-35 ESV / 123 helpful votes
Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 122 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.’”

John 6:50-71 ESV / 110 helpful votes
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. …

Matthew 26:26 ESV / 78 helpful votes
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

1 Corinthians 10:17 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

John 6:35 ESV / 63 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Matthew 6:11 ESV / 63 helpful votes
Give us this day our daily bread,

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 62 helpful votes
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

John 6:47-50 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

John 6:55-59 ESV / 54 helpful votes
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.

Ecclesiastes 11:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.

Leviticus 26:26 ESV / 49 helpful votes
When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Exodus 29:23 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And one loaf of bread and one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord.

John 6:50 ESV / 41 helpful votes
This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.

1 Kings 17:12 ESV / 41 helpful votes
And she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”

Exodus 29:2 ESV / 40 helpful votes
And unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.

Isaiah 55:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV / 37 helpful votes
He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Acts 20:7 ESV / 37 helpful votes
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

Genesis 14:18 ESV / 37 helpful votes
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)

John 6:51 ESV / 36 helpful votes
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Deuteronomy 8:3 ESV / 36 helpful votes
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Luke 22:19 ESV / 33 helpful votes
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

Judges 7:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes
When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”

Jeremiah 7:18 ESV / 31 helpful votes
The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

Psalm 81:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes
But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

Matthew 13:33 ESV / 30 helpful votes
He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”

Psalm 37:25 ESV / 30 helpful votes
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.

Genesis 18:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes.”

Ruth 2:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.

Leviticus 23:17 ESV / 27 helpful votes
You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the Lord.

1 Kings 22:27 ESV / 26 helpful votes
And say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace.”’”

Exodus 16:31 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Acts 2:46 ESV / 25 helpful votes
And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,

Jeremiah 37:21 ESV / 25 helpful votes
So King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard. And a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers’ street, until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Isaiah 30:20 ESV / 25 helpful votes
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.

1 Samuel 28:24 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Now the woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it,

Genesis 18:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes
While I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on—since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.”

1 Corinthians 11:24 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

1 Corinthians 11:23 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,

Matthew 26:26-29 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

Ezekiel 4:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.

1 Samuel 2:36 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, “Please put me in one of the priests’ places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”

John 4:14 ESV / 23 helpful votes
But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Leviticus 7:13 ESV / 23 helpful votes
With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread.

Exodus 12:34 ESV / 23 helpful votes
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 23 helpful votes
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Hosea 7:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes
They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Ezekiel 5:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes
When I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread.

Ezekiel 4:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes
“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.

Psalm 104:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man’s heart.

1 Samuel 25:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

Numbers 11:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes
The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

Exodus 25:30 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.

Exodus 12:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes
They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Genesis 27:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

1 Kings 19:6 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again.

Leviticus 2:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.

Genesis 40:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

Genesis 19:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes
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.

John 6:44 ESV / 19 helpful votes
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 6:9 ESV / 19 helpful votes
“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”

John 6:1-71 ESV / 19 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?” …

Exodus 12:18 ESV / 19 helpful votes
In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

John 21:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes
When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire in place, with fish laid out on it, and bread.

John 6:33 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

John 6:48 ESV / 17 helpful votes
I am the bread of life.

Mark 6:37 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said to him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”

Isaiah 44:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes
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?”

Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes
She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

1 Kings 14:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child.”

2 Samuel 6:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins to each one. Then all the people departed, each to his house.

1 Samuel 21:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes
So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.

Ruth 1:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the Lord had visited his people and given them food.

Joshua 9:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Here is our bread. It was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey on the day we set out to come to you, but now, behold, it is dry and crumbly.

Proverbs 30:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

1 Corinthians 11:26 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

John 8:12 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Psalm 127:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

1 Samuel 21:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.”

1 Samuel 8:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes
He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

Leviticus 7:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And every grain offering baked in the oven and all that is prepared on a pan or a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it.

Exodus 23:25 ESV / 15 helpful votes
You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

1 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

John 6:66-71 ESV / 14 helpful votes
After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the Twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.” …

Matthew 14:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

Lamentations 1:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. “Look, O Lord, and see, for I am despised.”

1 Chronicles 12:40 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And also their relatives, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

Leviticus 22:25 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Neither shall you offer as the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”

Leviticus 2:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And if your offering is a grain offering baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil.

Exodus 8:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.

1 Corinthians 11:23-25 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

1 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Exodus 29:32 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket in the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Genesis 21:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Luke 24:30 ESV / 12 helpful votes
When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them.

Matthew 14:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes
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.”

Lamentations 4:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.

Proverbs 20:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 11 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.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Bravery

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Bravery

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 354 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 257 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

1 Chronicles 28:20 ESV / 204 helpful votes
Then David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, is with you. He will not leave you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the Lord is finished.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 191 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.”

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 138 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.”

Philippians 1:28 ESV / 101 helpful votes
And not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 57 helpful votes
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. …

Romans 8:26-27 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Job 23:10 ESV / 44 helpful votes
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.

1 Corinthians 2:3 ESV / 42 helpful votes
And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling,

2 Timothy 4:22 ESV / 40 helpful votes
The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.

1 Peter 5:2-5 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; 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.”

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 31 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.”

Psalm 29:1-11 ESV / 28 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness. The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon. …

1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes
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,

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 25 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Proverbs 28:1 ESV / 23 helpful votes
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 21 helpful votes
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. …

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

James 1:27 ESV / 19 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.

Titus 3:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes
As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,

2 Peter 1:1 ESV / 17 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:

2 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Isaiah 41:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”

2 Corinthians 8:18-21 ESV / 14 helpful votes
With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel. And not only that, but he has been appointed by the churches to travel with us as we carry out this act of grace that is being ministered by us, for the glory of the Lord himself and to show our good will. We take this course so that no one should blame us about this generous gift that is being administered by us, for we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord’s sight but also in the sight of man.

Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

1 Thessalonians 2:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
By hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God’s wrath has come upon them at last!

Colossians 2:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,

Psalm 144:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Of David. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;

Psalm 56:3-4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

Psalm 27:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Galatians 6:10-18 ESV / 12 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. See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. …

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 12 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.

1 Corinthians 2:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 12 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.

Mark 5:36 ESV / 12 helpful votes
But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”

Matthew 14:27 ESV / 12 helpful votes
But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.”

2 Samuel 10:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Be of good courage, and let us be courageous for our people, and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.”

Hebrews 11:32-40 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets— who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. …

Hebrews 10:29 ESV / 11 helpful votes
How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— …

Colossians 2:18-19 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

Romans 8:31 ESV / 11 helpful votes
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Acts 20:1-21:40 ESV / 11 helpful votes
After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia. Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, …

Acts 18:27-19:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed, for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus. And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.” …

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Proverbs 19:23-27 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth. Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge. He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach. Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 11 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.

Esther 4:13-16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”

Genesis 28:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

1 Thessalonians 1:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

Colossians 1:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

Ephesians 4:1 ESV / 10 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,

Ephesians 1:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

2 Corinthians 3:12-18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. …

1 Corinthians 16:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Now I urge you, brothers—you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints—

1 Corinthians 15:50-54 ESV / 10 helpful votes
I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

1 Corinthians 1:18-2:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, …

Romans 11:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree,

Titus 1:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

2 Timothy 4:5-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing. Do your best to come to me soon.

2 Timothy 1:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,

1 Timothy 2:6-10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

1 Timothy 1:1-10 ESV / 9 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. …

2 Thessalonians 2:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

1 Thessalonians 1:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Colossians 2:10-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. …

Philippians 1:1-30 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. …

Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Ephesians 1:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

2 Corinthians 8:1-4 ESV / 9 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—

1 Corinthians 9:19-22 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

1 Corinthians 2:9-10 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

1 Corinthians 1:18-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, …

Romans 15:30 ESV / 9 helpful votes
I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,

Romans 15:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope.”

Romans 15:5-6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 20:31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish everyone with tears.

Acts 20:9-12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.” And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed. And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.

Acts 19:1-41 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.” And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. …

Acts 18:24-28 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him and explained to him the way of God more accurately. And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed, for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

Acts 4:31-5:33 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness. 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. …

John 16:33 ESV / 9 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.”

John 14:27 ESV / 9 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 10:28 ESV / 9 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.

Isaiah 54:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

Psalm 27:1 ESV / 9 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?

Revelation 14:7-12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.” Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.” And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.” …

1 John 4:1-5:21 ESV / 8 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. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 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. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. …

Hebrews 13:5-6 ESV / 8 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?”

Titus 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,

2 Timothy 3:8-9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

Acts 28:3-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
When Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and put them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand. When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.” He, however, shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm. They were waiting for him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But when they had waited a long time and saw no misfortune come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god. Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us and entertained us hospitably for three days. …

Acts 19:20-40 ESV / 8 helpful votes
So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily. Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.” And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while. About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way. For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen. …

Acts 5:27-33 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.” But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. …

Daniel 3:10-18 ESV / 8 helpful votes
You, O king, have made a decree, that every man who hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image. And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into a burning fiery furnace. There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, pay no attention to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.” Then Nebuchadnezzar in furious rage commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. So they brought these men before the king. Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up? …

What does Aslan International Ministry say about boundaries

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Boundaries

Galatians 6:5 ESV / 147 helpful votes
For each will have to bear his own load.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 136 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 129 helpful votes
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Acts 17:26 ESV / 122 helpful votes
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Proverbs 25:17 ESV / 120 helpful votes
Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you.

Psalm 16:5-9 ESV / 118 helpful votes
The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 104 helpful votes
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 90 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 88 helpful votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Proverbs 19:19 ESV / 86 helpful votes
A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.

Proverbs 22:24 ESV / 83 helpful votes
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 80 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Psalm 147:14 ESV / 79 helpful votes
He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the finest of the wheat.

Ephesians 5:1-4 ESV / 75 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

Psalm 16:5-8 ESV / 75 helpful votes
The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 64 helpful votes
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

Psalm 19:7-11 ESV / 64 helpful votes
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

Mark 9:49-50 ESV / 63 helpful votes
For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Mark 9:42-50 ESV / 60 helpful votes
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ …

Proverbs 23:14 ESV / 60 helpful votes
If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

Matthew 5:13 ESV / 59 helpful votes
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.

Proverbs 15:25 ESV / 58 helpful votes
The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow’s boundaries.

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 57 helpful votes
Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 54 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.

Mark 9:50 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Proverbs 26:5 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Proverbs 24:11 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

Luke 14:34 ESV / 40 helpful votes
“Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?

Titus 3:10 ESV / 37 helpful votes
As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,

Proverbs 22:28 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 37 helpful votes
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 37 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.

Micah 7:11 ESV / 36 helpful votes
A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.

Psalm 16:1-11 ESV / 36 helpful votes
A Miktam of David. Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight. The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips. The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. …

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 35 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.

Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV / 35 helpful votes
“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. …

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Ezekiel 47:13 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord God: “This is the boundary by which you shall divide the land for inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.

Proverbs 27:5 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Proverbs 14:17 ESV / 31 helpful votes
A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.

Psalm 16:6 ESV / 31 helpful votes
The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.

Exodus 20:3-17 ESV / 31 helpful votes
“You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. …

James 5:12 ESV / 30 helpful votes
But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.

James 4:4 ESV / 30 helpful votes
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 30 helpful votes
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Deuteronomy 32:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

Deuteronomy 28:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes
“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 29 helpful votes
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 27 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.

Matthew 10:16 ESV / 27 helpful votes
“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Deuteronomy 28:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you.

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 26 helpful votes
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

2 Corinthians 8:13-14 ESV / 26 helpful votes
For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 25 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.’

Romans 13:9-10 ESV / 24 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.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Exodus 23:31 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

Matthew 19:16-22 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And behold, a man came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?” And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.” He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” The young man said to him, “All these I have kept. What do I still lack?” …

Matthew 7:3-5 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Proverbs 8:29 ESV / 21 helpful votes
When he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

Titus 2:15 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

1 Timothy 5:1-3 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are truly widows.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 14:6 ESV / 20 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.

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

Romans 12:21 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 12:17-18 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 19 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 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.

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Galatians 6:7-8 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 17 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.

Colossians 4:1-18 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. …

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 15 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.

Micah 6:1-16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Hear what the Lord says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the Lord has an indictment against his people, and he will contend with Israel. “O my people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Answer me! For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.” …

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

John 14:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 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 …

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Philippians 1:9-10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

2 Corinthians 8:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.

Romans 8:5-6 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

John 2:23-25 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

Luke 6:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes
To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either.

Psalm 104:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes
You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.

Deuteronomy 11:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.

1 John 4:1-3 ESV / 11 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. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.

1 John 2:15-16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.

Titus 2:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

2 Corinthians 5:16-17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matthew 18:15-20 ESV / 11 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. Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. …

What does Aslan International Ministry say about born again

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Born Again

John 3:3 ESV / 121 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 3:1-8 ESV / 80 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. …

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 73 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 64 helpful votes
Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

John 3:1-36 ESV / 62 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …

John 3:36 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

John 3:16 ESV / 53 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.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 48 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:7 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

Titus 3:5 ESV / 42 helpful votes
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Romans 10:10 ESV / 40 helpful votes
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

John 3:5 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

John 1:12 ESV / 38 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 37 helpful votes
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 36 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.

John 3:8 ESV / 36 helpful votes
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

John 3:6 ESV / 36 helpful votes
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 33 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 31 helpful votes
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,

John 4:24 ESV / 31 helpful votes
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Acts 2:38 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 1:11-14 ESV / 29 helpful votes
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

Ezekiel 36:26-27 ESV / 27 helpful votes
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 25 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.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Ephesians 1:3-5 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

1 John 5:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.

John 1:12-13 ESV / 22 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

1 John 3:9 ESV / 21 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.

Ephesians 2:1 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

Acts 17:30-31 ESV / 21 helpful votes
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

1 John 4:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 20 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 John 5:18 ESV / 19 helpful votes
We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

Acts 22:16 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

John 3:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

John 1:13 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 1:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

John 6:63 ESV / 18 helpful votes
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

John 3:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes
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.”

Matthew 3:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Genesis 6:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”

Colossians 3:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

John 3:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes
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?”

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 16 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.”

James 1:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Romans 9:15-16 ESV / 16 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.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

John 14:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:1-21 ESV / 16 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 7:30 ESV / 16 helpful votes
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 15 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.

Romans 1:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

John 3:3-7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
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. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

Ephesians 2:5-6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Romans 10:9 ESV / 14 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.

John 3:31 ESV / 14 helpful votes
He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.

John 3:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
That whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

Matthew 3:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

1 John 5:4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

Colossians 2:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

John 3:18 ESV / 13 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.

John 3:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

Mark 16:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Matthew 16:18-19 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 3:13-17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

1 John 5:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

1 John 2:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes
If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

John 5:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

John 1:19-34 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” …

Isaiah 2:1-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

Ephesians 5:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes
That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Acts 16:31 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

John 6:52 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

John 3:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

John 3:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?

John 3:1-7 ESV / 11 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 3:1-8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways, …

Matthew 3:2-6 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’” Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Joel 2:28-32 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit. “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

John 4:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

John 3:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”

Mark 1:1-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Romans 3:9-18 ESV / 9 helpful votes
What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” …

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

John 3:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes
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.

John 3:17 ESV / 9 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.

John 3:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.

1 John 3:23-24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

Acts 16:30-31 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

John 3:34 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.

Revelation 1:1 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,

1 Peter 1:22-23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 7 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.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about boldness

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Boldness

Proverbs 28:1 ESV / 307 helpful votes
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Acts 28:31 ESV / 305 helpful votes
Proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.

Ephesians 3:12 ESV / 279 helpful votes
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.

Acts 4:31 ESV / 250 helpful votes
And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.

Acts 4:29 ESV / 218 helpful votes
And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness,

2 Corinthians 3:12 ESV / 212 helpful votes
Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,

Hebrews 13:6 ESV / 206 helpful votes
So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”

Acts 4:13 ESV / 195 helpful votes
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 180 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.”

Ephesians 6:19 ESV / 160 helpful votes
And also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,

2 Timothy 1:6-7 ESV / 145 helpful votes
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 123 helpful votes
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Psalm 138:3 ESV / 84 helpful votes
On the day I called, you answered me; my strength of soul you increased.

Hebrews 10:19-25 ESV / 74 helpful votes
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. …

Philippians 1:20 ESV / 71 helpful votes
As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

Philemon 1:8 ESV / 66 helpful votes
Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 66 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 John 5:14 ESV / 64 helpful votes
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 57 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.

Romans 8:15 ESV / 57 helpful votes
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

2 Corinthians 7:4 ESV / 53 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.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 49 helpful votes
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Acts 13:46 ESV / 46 helpful votes
And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Hebrews 10:19 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,

1 John 3:21 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

Philippians 1:14 ESV / 39 helpful votes
And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

John 14:26 ESV / 38 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.

1 Thessalonians 2:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes
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.

2 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes
I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh.

Acts 4:1-37 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand. On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, …

Acts 2:1-4 ESV / 34 helpful votes
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 34 helpful votes
So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 34 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.”

Psalm 56:3-4 ESV / 33 helpful votes
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

Ephesians 6:19-20 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.

Acts 14:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes
So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

John 15:13 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Psalm 27:1 ESV / 27 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 John 2:5 ESV / 26 helpful votes
But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

Acts 20:27 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Luke 11:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes
I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.

1 Chronicles 28:20 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Then David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for the Lord God, even my God, is with you. He will not leave you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the Lord is finished.

Jude 1:20 ESV / 24 helpful votes
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

Acts 19:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And he entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.

Acts 18:26 ESV / 24 helpful votes
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 23 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 Timothy 3:13 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

Acts 9:27 ESV / 23 helpful votes
But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

1 John 2:28 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.

Hebrews 13:5-6 ESV / 22 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?”

John 3:1-36 ESV / 22 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. …

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 22 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. …

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Acts 2:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

John 15:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

John 14:15 ESV / 21 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

1 John 4:17 ESV / 20 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.

Hebrews 10:19-20 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

Hebrews 3:6 ESV / 20 helpful votes
But Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 20 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.

Acts 1:8 ESV / 19 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.”

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 19 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.

James 5:16 ESV / 18 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 John 3:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

1 Corinthians 12:28 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.

Acts 5:1-42 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife’s knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.” When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. …

1 John 4:18 ESV / 16 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.

Ephesians 6:18-20 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.

Psalm 27:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

2 Corinthians 3:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.

Isaiah 54:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

Ephesians 3:11-12 ESV / 14 helpful votes
This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.

Romans 1:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

John 17:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Matthew 28:19 ESV / 14 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,

Ephesians 4:14-15 ESV / 13 helpful votes
So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 13 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; …

Acts 4:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes
On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem,

John 14:21 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

John 13:34 ESV / 13 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.

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

Ephesians 4:11-12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

Ephesians 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For we walk by faith, not by sight.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 12 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.

Luke 4:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Acts 20:35 ESV / 11 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.’”

Acts 2:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes
This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

Jude 1:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 3:2-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 10 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.

Hebrews 10:18-25 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. …

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Acts 9:29 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists. But they were seeking to kill him.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Body image

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Body Image

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 961 helpful votes
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 910 helpful votes
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 850 helpful votes
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 803 helpful votes
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 702 helpful votes
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 565 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.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 554 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 551 helpful votes
For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 513 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.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 480 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 402 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.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 372 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.”

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 366 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 357 helpful votes
Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 315 helpful votes
You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 305 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 299 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 287 helpful votes
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Isaiah 43:7 ESV / 287 helpful votes
Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 275 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.

Song of Solomon 4:7 ESV / 271 helpful votes
You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 271 helpful votes
Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 268 helpful votes
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 265 helpful votes
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 265 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 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 255 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 231 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 230 helpful votes
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 226 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.

Philippians 3:21 ESV / 210 helpful votes
Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

1 Corinthians 11:7 ESV / 205 helpful votes
For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.

Romans 12:4 ESV / 199 helpful votes
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 195 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.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 193 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,

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 193 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. …

Colossians 1:15 ESV / 192 helpful votes
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Psalm 45:11 ESV / 188 helpful votes
And the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 186 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; …

1 Corinthians 15:44 ESV / 185 helpful votes
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 15:49 ESV / 184 helpful votes
Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 179 helpful votes
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 176 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. …

Genesis 9:6 ESV / 174 helpful votes
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

John 14:6 ESV / 173 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.

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 172 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 171 helpful votes
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 170 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.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 167 helpful votes
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalm 139:13-14 ESV / 166 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.

Colossians 1:18 ESV / 161 helpful votes
And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

Genesis 1:6 ESV / 160 helpful votes
And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

Romans 12:3 ESV / 159 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.

Psalm 100:3 ESV / 158 helpful votes
Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Philippians 1:20 ESV / 157 helpful votes
As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

Romans 6:12 ESV / 156 helpful votes
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.

Colossians 3:10 ESV / 152 helpful votes
And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 145 helpful votes
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 145 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.

Ephesians 4:24 ESV / 141 helpful votes
And to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 140 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 …

Romans 12:5 ESV / 139 helpful votes
So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 137 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.

Romans 6:6 ESV / 128 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.

1 Corinthians 12:12 ESV / 126 helpful votes
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 126 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

Romans 12:6 ESV / 116 helpful votes
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 115 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 111 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,

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 110 helpful votes
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Colossians 1:24 ESV / 109 helpful votes
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

Ephesians 4:12 ESV / 109 helpful votes
To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

James 3:9 ESV / 108 helpful votes
With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

Ephesians 1:23 ESV / 104 helpful votes
Which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Ephesians 5:30 ESV / 103 helpful votes
Because we are members of his body.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 103 helpful votes
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 103 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Matthew 17:1-27 ESV / 99 helpful votes
And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” …

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 99 helpful votes
The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. …

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 98 helpful votes
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 97 helpful votes
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 88 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …

2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 86 helpful votes
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 11:8-9 ESV / 85 helpful votes
For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

Hebrews 1:1-14 ESV / 83 helpful votes
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”? …

Isaiah 64:8 ESV / 75 helpful votes
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

1 Corinthians 6:15 ESV / 71 helpful votes
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

Romans 3:23 ESV / 71 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 5:8 ESV / 65 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 64 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.

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 63 helpful votes
For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 61 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.”

Exodus 20:5 ESV / 60 helpful votes
You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Ephesians 2:21 ESV / 49 helpful votes
In whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 46 helpful votes
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

1 Corinthians 12:12-31 ESV / 45 helpful votes
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. …

Romans 8:23 ESV / 45 helpful votes
And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 45 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Psalm 139:7 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?

Ephesians 2:16 ESV / 43 helpful votes
And might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Boasting

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Boasting

James 4:16 ESV / 599 helpful votes
As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Proverbs 27:2 ESV / 536 helpful votes
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Jeremiah 9:23 ESV / 506 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,

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 400 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.

Proverbs 27:1 ESV / 384 helpful votes
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 213 helpful votes
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

Psalm 94:4 ESV / 203 helpful votes
They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 198 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

2 Corinthians 11:30 ESV / 190 helpful votes
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 170 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. …

James 3:5 ESV / 163 helpful votes
So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

Ephesians 2:9 ESV / 155 helpful votes
Not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

2 Corinthians 10:12-18 ESV / 150 helpful votes
Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding. But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you. For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ. We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged, so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another’s area of influence. …

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 146 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

1 Corinthians 1:31 ESV / 142 helpful votes
So that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

Proverbs 25:14 ESV / 127 helpful votes
Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.

Jeremiah 9:23-24 ESV / 117 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.”

Galatians 6:14 ESV / 110 helpful votes
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

James 4:13-16 ESV / 103 helpful votes
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Isaiah 10:15 ESV / 89 helpful votes
Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!

Jeremiah 9:24 ESV / 82 helpful votes
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.”

2 Corinthians 10:17 ESV / 75 helpful votes
“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

Psalm 34:2 ESV / 70 helpful votes
My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 66 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Romans 12:3 ESV / 61 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.

Romans 3:27 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 59 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.

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 59 helpful votes
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 57 helpful votes
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 3:21 ESV / 54 helpful votes
So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

Romans 11:17-21 ESV / 54 helpful votes
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

Jude 1:16 ESV / 53 helpful votes
These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.

1 Peter 2:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

Romans 1:30 ESV / 52 helpful votes
Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Psalm 44:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes
In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah

Psalm 52:1 ESV / 49 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.

1 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 46 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.

1 Corinthians 1:29 ESV / 45 helpful votes
So that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

Psalm 49:6-9 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches? Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life, for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice, that he should live on forever and never see the pit.

2 Corinthians 3:5 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,

Proverbs 27:1-2 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 43 helpful votes
It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory.

Philippians 3:3 ESV / 42 helpful votes
For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—

John 5:30 ESV / 40 helpful votes
“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

Proverbs 16:5 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 39 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.

2 Kings 18:19 ESV / 39 helpful votes
And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?

2 Thessalonians 1:4 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 36 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Peter 4:16 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.

James 3:14 ESV / 34 helpful votes
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

Romans 2:23 ESV / 34 helpful votes
You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.

Proverbs 20:14 ESV / 33 helpful votes
“Bad, bad,” says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts.

Romans 4:2 ESV / 32 helpful votes
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

Psalm 105:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 31 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.

Isaiah 41:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes
You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the Lord; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

Romans 3:10 ESV / 30 helpful votes
As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

James 4:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Corinthians 1:26 ESV / 28 helpful votes
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

Psalm 101:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

Isaiah 10:8-15 ESV / 27 helpful votes
For he says: “Are not my commanders all kings? Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria, shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?” When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes. …

Isaiah 45:25 ESV / 26 helpful votes
In the Lord all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory.”

James 2:1-26 ESV / 25 helpful votes
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? 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? …

2 Corinthians 12:1-21 ESV / 25 helpful votes
I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. …

Mark 8:35 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.

Judges 9:38 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your mouth now, you who said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Are not these the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them.”

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 24 helpful votes
[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. …

Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 24 helpful votes
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, …

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. …

Romans 5:11 ESV / 23 helpful votes
More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Jeremiah 4:2 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And if you swear, ‘As the Lord lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 22 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. …

Proverbs 29:23 ESV / 22 helpful votes
One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

1 Corinthians 4:6-7 ESV / 21 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. For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 1:17-31 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. …

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 21 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— …

Romans 5:2 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

John 3:16 ESV / 21 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.

Romans 15:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes
In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.

Exodus 4:22 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son,

Romans 15:18 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed,

Luke 18:14 ESV / 19 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.”

Psalm 138:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 16 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 …

2 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. …

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.

Romans 2:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God

Romans 2:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
On that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

John 17:1-26 ESV / 15 helpful votes
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. …

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Romans 11:18 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Matthew 6:1-2 ESV / 12 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.

What does Aslan International Ministry say about Brothers in Christ

What does Aslan International Ministry say about 

Brothers In Christ

Mark 3:35 ESV / 30 helpful votes
For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

John 1:12-13 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

Hebrews 2:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes
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 John 3:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 10 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.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Galatians 4:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 6 helpful votes
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. …

Philippians 1:15-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice,

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 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; …

Acts 20:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

John 5:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. …

1 John 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Hebrews 3:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

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

Galatians 1:1-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. …

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.”

Micah 5:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.

Isaiah 66:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

Jude 1:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. …

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

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

1 Timothy 3:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? …

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

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

1 Corinthians 16:1-2 ESV / 2 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.

1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; …

1 Corinthians 3:12-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

1 Corinthians 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
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:

Romans 16:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. …

Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 2 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. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? 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? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. …

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.

Acts 11:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

Acts 8:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him. But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison. Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. …

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

John 20:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

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 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

John 8:24 ESV / 2 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.”

John 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

John 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

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

Luke 24:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Mark 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

Mark 14:1-72 ESV / 2 helpful votes
It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.” And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her. …

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 2 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.’

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.

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 2 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, …

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Matthew 15:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Matthew 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).

Daniel 3:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And the herald proclaimed aloud, “You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. …

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. …

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Proverbs 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.