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Aslan International Ministry – Example To Others

Aslan International Ministry – 

Example To Others

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 233 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.

Titus 2:7 ESV / 138 helpful votes
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 105 helpful votes
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

John 3:16-21 ESV / 52 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. …

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Philippians 3:17 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 24 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. …

Proverbs 6:23 ESV / 22 helpful votes
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Matthew 23:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes
So practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 16 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Thessalonians 1:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes
So that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 13 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.

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

2 Corinthians 5:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

John 13:35 ESV / 9 helpful votes
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

3 John 1:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

1 Peter 5:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.

1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 8 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.

James 3:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Ephesians 5:8-9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),

Romans 13:13-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Matthew 7:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

Proverbs 3:34 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.

Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

Romans 15:5-6 ESV / 7 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.

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

2 Thessalonians 3:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.

1 Corinthians 6:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Acts 20:35 ESV / 6 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.’”

Ecclesiastes 10:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; …

Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 5 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 6:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Isaiah 40:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 4 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 2:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 4 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.

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

John 15:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

John 13:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

Luke 6:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Psalm 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

Genesis 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?

James 1:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Hebrews 13:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.

Romans 12:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

John 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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

John 11:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus wept.

Luke 12:33-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

Deuteronomy 15:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 John 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 2 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,

Titus 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.

1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,

1 Thessalonians 1:6 ESV / 2 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,

Philippians 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

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

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

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 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.

Galatians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

2 Corinthians 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

Romans 12:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. …

Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ …

Luke 6:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Mark 10:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 25:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
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.’

Aslan International Ministry – Eternity

Aslan International Ministry – 

Eternity

John 5:24 ESV / 148 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.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 93 helpful votes
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 83 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalm 90:2 ESV / 80 helpful votes
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 58 helpful votes
They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 57 helpful votes
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

John 17:3 ESV / 57 helpful votes
And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

John 6:50-71 ESV / 55 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 25:46 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Philippians 1:23 ESV / 46 helpful votes
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.

Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 44 helpful votes
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

John 14:2-3 ESV / 39 helpful votes
In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

John 1:12 ESV / 37 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Galatians 6:8 ESV / 33 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.

John 3:16 ESV / 32 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.

Psalm 102:25-27 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, but you are the same, and your years have no end.

Psalm 72:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes
May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!

Psalm 30:12 ESV / 26 helpful votes
That my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Mark 9:43-48 ESV / 24 helpful votes
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.’

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 23 helpful votes
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Jude 1:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Jude 1:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

Matthew 13:43 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

Jeremiah 10:10 ESV / 21 helpful votes
But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Psalm 119:142 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Your righteousness is righteous forever, and your law is true.

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Revelation 1:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

2 Thessalonians 2:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.

Romans 10:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Jeremiah 32:27 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?

Psalm 145:1-21 ESV / 14 helpful votes
A Song of Praise. Of David. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. …

2 Corinthians 5:6-8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

John 5:29 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Daniel 4:34 ESV / 13 helpful votes
At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;

Psalm 41:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.

Genesis 1:1-17 ESV / 13 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. …

1 Corinthians 15:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,

John 8:44 ESV / 11 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.

Revelation 3:5-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. “‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they will learn that I have loved you.

Isaiah 43:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Isaiah 66:22-24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your offspring and your name remain. From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the Lord. “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Aslan International Ministry – Eternal Security

Aslan International Ministry – 

Eternal Security

John 10:27-29 ESV / 291 helpful votes
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

John 6:37 ESV / 175 helpful votes
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

John 10:28 ESV / 146 helpful votes
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

John 5:24 ESV / 129 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 / 124 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 11:29 ESV / 117 helpful votes
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 108 helpful votes
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jude 1:24 ESV / 96 helpful votes
Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,

1 John 5:13 ESV / 88 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.

2 Corinthians 1:22 ESV / 83 helpful votes
And who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 81 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 80 helpful votes
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 4:30 ESV / 78 helpful votes
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Romans 11:6 ESV / 71 helpful votes
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

Hebrews 10:14 ESV / 54 helpful votes
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

1 John 5:10-13 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 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.

Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 48 helpful votes
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 45 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.

Romans 8:34 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 41 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.”

Romans 6:23 ESV / 41 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 6:47 ESV / 41 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

John 6:40 ESV / 39 helpful votes
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

Hebrews 7:25 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

1 John 2:19 ESV / 36 helpful votes
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

Ephesians 1:13-14 ESV / 35 helpful votes
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

Romans 8:28-31 ESV / 30 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. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

John 6:39 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.

John 3:18 ESV / 30 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.

1 Peter 1:4-5 ESV / 29 helpful votes
To an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 Corinthians 1:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalm 34:22 ESV / 29 helpful votes
The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Jude 1:24-25 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV / 27 helpful votes
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

2 Timothy 2:19 ESV / 27 helpful votes
But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”

Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV / 27 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.

2 Corinthians 5:5 ESV / 27 helpful votes
He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 26 helpful votes
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 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 Thessalonians 5:23-24 ESV / 25 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. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.

Romans 8:30 ESV / 25 helpful votes
And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

John 3:36 ESV / 25 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.

1 John 3:9 ESV / 24 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.

2 Timothy 4:18 ESV / 24 helpful votes
The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Romans 8:9 ESV / 24 helpful votes
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

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

Romans 9:16 ESV / 23 helpful votes
So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

1 Peter 1:1-25 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. …

Romans 8:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 22 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 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. …

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

1 Corinthians 1:8-9 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

John 14:15-16 ESV / 21 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

1 John 5:4 ESV / 20 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.

Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 20 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,

Ephesians 1:1-23 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 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, …

John 4:14 ESV / 20 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.”

Hebrews 10:26-29 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 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?

1 John 3:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

John 1:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

1 John 4:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Hebrews 9:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

2 Thessalonians 3:3 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.

Colossians 1:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 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. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. …

Acts 2:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.

Galatians 6:8-9 ESV / 16 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.

Romans 5:18 ESV / 16 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.

Acts 2:38-39 ESV / 16 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. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

Hebrews 9:12 ESV / 15 helpful votes
He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

Philippians 2:12 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

John 20:31 ESV / 15 helpful votes
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

1 John 3:18-21 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

1 John 3:6-9 ESV / 14 helpful votes
No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 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.

Hebrews 10:36 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

John 6:50-71 ESV / 14 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. …

Luke 8:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away.

Psalm 119:165 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.

Jude 1:21 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

Titus 1:1-2 ESV / 13 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, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

Galatians 5:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes
You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

Galatians 3:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

Romans 8:32 ESV / 12 helpful votes
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Romans 3:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

John 17:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

John 15:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 12 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.”

Isaiah 51:1-23 ESV / 12 helpful votes
“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug. Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him. For the Lord comforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song. “Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples. My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait. …

Psalm 125:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.

Colossians 2:13-14 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

Ecclesiastes 3:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes
I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.

1 Peter 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Ephesians 2:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Luke 15:3-7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, …

Aslan International Ministry – Encouraging Each Other

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Encouraging Each Other

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 1,054 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Hebrews 10:23-25 ESV / 531 helpful votes
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 463 helpful votes
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

1 Peter 4:8-10 ESV / 445 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 342 helpful votes
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 320 helpful votes
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 314 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.

Hebrews 10:24 ESV / 292 helpful votes
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 260 helpful votes
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

Proverbs 12:25 ESV / 231 helpful votes
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 213 helpful votes
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 207 helpful votes
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 201 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.

Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 200 helpful votes
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 187 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

John 16:33 ESV / 156 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.”

Acts 15:32 ESV / 155 helpful votes
And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.

Romans 15:5 ESV / 141 helpful votes
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 137 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.

Colossians 2:2 ESV / 123 helpful votes
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,

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 121 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.”

Romans 8:28 ESV / 108 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.

John 14:27 ESV / 107 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.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 100 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 98 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.

1 Thessalonians 4:18 ESV / 95 helpful votes
Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 95 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Proverbs 10:11 ESV / 91 helpful votes
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Romans 15:4 ESV / 89 helpful votes
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 88 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.

Isaiah 43:2 ESV / 85 helpful votes
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 85 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Romans 14:19 ESV / 82 helpful votes
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Ephesians 4:12 ESV / 79 helpful votes
To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 77 helpful votes
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Romans 15:2 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 76 helpful votes
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 75 helpful votes
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 74 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.

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 73 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.

Romans 8:31 ESV / 73 helpful votes
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV / 70 helpful votes
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 69 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 67 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Titus 1:9 ESV / 66 helpful votes
He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 65 helpful votes
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 64 helpful votes
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

2 Corinthians 4:17 ESV / 61 helpful votes
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 59 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 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 11:25 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

John 3:16 ESV / 52 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Thessalonians 3:2 ESV / 51 helpful votes
And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Luke 12:6-7 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Acts 4:36 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus,

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Psalm 121:1-2 ESV / 50 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 48 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Psalm 133:1 ESV / 48 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

Colossians 4:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes
I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts,

Hebrews 10:19-25 ESV / 45 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. …

2 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 44 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. …

Philippians 2:1 ESV / 43 helpful votes
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,

2 Corinthians 8:12 ESV / 43 helpful votes
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

Romans 1:11 ESV / 42 helpful votes
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—

Isaiah 43:4 ESV / 42 helpful votes
Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 41 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Thessalonians 2:11 ESV / 41 helpful votes
For you know how, like a father with his children,

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 40 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 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. …

1 Corinthians 1:18 ESV / 38 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.

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 38 helpful votes
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Psalm 90:17 ESV / 38 helpful votes
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!

Acts 14:22 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

1 Peter 5:6 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 36 helpful votes
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

2 Peter 1:12 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.

Acts 15:31 ESV / 33 helpful votes
And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.

1 John 3:2 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Matthew 11:28-29 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 31 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 27:36 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Then they all were encouraged and ate some food themselves.

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 29 helpful votes
From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 28 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.

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalm 16:8 ESV / 28 helpful votes
I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

Proverbs 18:10 ESV / 27 helpful votes
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

Psalm 121:1-8 ESV / 27 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. …

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 26 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.”

Revelation 1:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes
That the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

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Daniel 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And I saw in the vision; and when I saw, I was in Susa the capital, which is in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and I was at the Ulai canal.

Jeremiah 51:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.

Isaiah 17:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.

Isaiah 13:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

Isaiah 13:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. On a bare hill raise a signal; cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles. I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones. The sound of a tumult is on the mountains as of a great multitude! The sound of an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The Lord of hosts is mustering a host for battle. They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the Lord and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. …

Isaiah 12:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
You will say in that day: “I will give thanks to you, O Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me. “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.” With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. And you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted. “Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth. …

Isaiah 11:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 11:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.

Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 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 31:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
She makes bed coverings for herself; her clothing is fine linen and purple.

Psalm 149:1-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly! Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King! Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre! For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation. Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds. …

Psalm 148:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts! Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars! Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens! Let them praise the name of the Lord! For he commanded and they were created. …

Psalm 145:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. …

Psalm 136:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever; …

Psalm 124:1-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Of David. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side— let Israel now say— if it had not been the Lord who was on our side when people rose up against us, then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us; then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us; then over us would have gone the raging waters. …

Psalm 105:1-45 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples! Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works! Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice! Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually! Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered, …

Psalm 104:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.

Psalm 99:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!

Psalm 98:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let the rivers clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together

Psalm 96:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.”

Psalm 93:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, …

Psalm 75:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah

Psalm 40:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. …

Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 2 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. …

Psalm 16:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.

Psalm 2:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, …

Nehemiah 7:67 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337. And they had 245 singers, male and female.

Ezra 7:12-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven. Peace. And now I make a decree that anyone of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you. For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand, and also to carry the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem, with all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God that is in Jerusalem. …

Ezra 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Ezra 4:8-6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows: Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the governors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites, and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River. (This is a copy of the letter that they sent.) “To Artaxerxes the king: Your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River, send greeting. And now be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations. …

Ezra 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

Ezra 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the Lord.

Ezra 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

Ezra 2:1-70 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town. They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: the sons of Parosh, 2,172. The sons of Shephatiah, 372. The sons of Arah, 775. …

Ezra 1:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing: “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem. And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”

1 Chronicles 23:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men.

1 Chronicles 16:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.

1 Chronicles 2:1-55 ESV / 2 helpful votes
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death. His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. …

2 Kings 25:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 1:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.” But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus says the Lord, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went. The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?” …

1 Kings 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.

2 Samuel 1:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul’s camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.” And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.” Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” …

1 Samuel 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and on them he has set the world.

Ruth 1:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. …

Joshua 10:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
At that time Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.” And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.

Deuteronomy 30:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.

Deuteronomy 28:68 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

Deuteronomy 18:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer

Deuteronomy 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,

Numbers 8:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 4:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
From thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come to do the service of ministry and the service of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting,

Numbers 4:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall list them, everyone who can come on duty, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
From thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can come on duty, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

Exodus 20:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“You shall have no other gods before me.

Genesis 49:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords.

Genesis 37:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.

Genesis 31:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

Genesis 31:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee.

Genesis 25:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Genesis 25:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

Genesis 18:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”

Genesis 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

Genesis 17:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him,

Genesis 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

Genesis 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.

Genesis 14:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, these kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea). Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, …

Genesis 12:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

Genesis 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Genesis 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 11:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah.

Genesis 11:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

Genesis 11:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

Genesis 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.

Genesis 11:1-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. …

Genesis 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.

Genesis 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Genesis 10:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Genesis 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.” The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 10:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

Genesis 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

Genesis 10:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations. …

Genesis 9:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

Genesis 9:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Genesis 8:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

Genesis 7:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.

Genesis 7:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 6:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive.

Genesis 5:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died. …

Genesis 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

Genesis 4:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Zillah also bore Tubal-cain; he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

Genesis 4:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

Genesis 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes
When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 3:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Aslan International Ministry – Eating Animal Blood

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Eating Animal Blood

Genesis 9:4 ESV / 223 helpful votes
But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Leviticus 17:14 ESV / 212 helpful votes
For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

Acts 15:20 ESV / 179 helpful votes
But should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

Leviticus 3:17 ESV / 141 helpful votes
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”

Acts 15:29 ESV / 135 helpful votes
That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Deuteronomy 12:23 ESV / 133 helpful votes
Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

Leviticus 17:10 ESV / 113 helpful votes
“If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.

Deuteronomy 12:16 ESV / 92 helpful votes
Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

Mark 7:18-19 ESV / 87 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 80 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. …

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 72 helpful votes
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 70 helpful votes
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Leviticus 17:11 ESV / 66 helpful votes
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 60 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Mark 7:14-15 ESV / 60 helpful votes
And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”

Deuteronomy 14:21 ESV / 55 helpful votes
“You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Acts 15:1-41 ESV / 54 helpful votes
But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.” …

Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 54 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. …

Romans 14:21 ESV / 48 helpful votes
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Leviticus 11:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes
“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

Leviticus 7:23 ESV / 43 helpful votes
“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat.

Leviticus 19:26 ESV / 42 helpful votes
“You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.

Luke 11:11-13 ESV / 41 helpful votes
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Mark 7:19 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Leviticus 17:10-14 ESV / 40 helpful votes
“If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood. “Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

1 Corinthians 10:1-33 ESV / 38 helpful votes
For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. …

Isaiah 66:3 ESV / 37 helpful votes
“He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig’s blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;

Colossians 2:16 ESV / 36 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.

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 36 helpful votes
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Romans 14:14 ESV / 34 helpful votes
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

Daniel 1:12 ESV / 34 helpful votes
“Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Leviticus 7:26-27 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places. Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”

Leviticus 7:23-24 ESV / 33 helpful votes
“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat. The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it.

1 Corinthians 10:25 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.

Leviticus 11:1-30 ESV / 31 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. …

Acts 10:9-16 ESV / 30 helpful votes
The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” …

Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 29 helpful votes
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. …

Isaiah 11:6-9 ESV / 29 helpful votes
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Leviticus 7:26 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— …

Deuteronomy 14:1-29 ESV / 27 helpful votes
“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. “You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. …

Leviticus 17:1-16 ESV / 26 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the people of Israel and say to them, This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. If any one of the house of Israel kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp, and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the Lord in front of the tabernacle of the Lord, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people. This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices that they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the Lord, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the Lord. …

Genesis 1:29-31 ESV / 26 helpful votes
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 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.

Proverbs 12:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

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

Leviticus 22:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes
He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the Lord.’

Leviticus 17:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And every person who eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.

Genesis 8:20 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 4:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering,

Acts 15:28-29 ESV / 21 helpful votes
For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

1 Timothy 4:1-5 ESV / 20 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, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

Romans 14:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes
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.

Deuteronomy 15:23 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Leviticus 17:13-14 ESV / 20 helpful votes
“Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

Genesis 9:3-4 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 19 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,

Proverbs 6:16-17 ESV / 19 helpful votes
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

1 Samuel 14:32 ESV / 19 helpful votes
The people pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood.

Genesis 9:1-29 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. …

Genesis 4:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.

1 Timothy 4:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

Romans 14:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes
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.

Romans 8:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.

Acts 21:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes
But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

Acts 10:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes
But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” …

Ezekiel 4:9 ESV / 18 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.

Mark 7:14-23 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) …

Genesis 9:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.

Daniel 1:1-21 ESV / 16 helpful votes
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god. Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans. The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king. …

Leviticus 17:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And the priest shall throw the blood on the altar of the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

Genesis 1:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes
So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Acts 10:44-47 ESV / 15 helpful votes
While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared, “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

Matthew 15:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?

Deuteronomy 12:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire.

Leviticus 17:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.

Leviticus 17:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes
This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices that they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the Lord, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the Lord.

1 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

1 Corinthians 8:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

Luke 9:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

Leviticus 17:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 14 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.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 14 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 8:4-7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Acts 10:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 13 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.

Deuteronomy 14:3-21 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you. …

Leviticus 17:10-16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood. “Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off. …

Leviticus 11:39-40 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening, and whoever eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 11:4-8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

Genesis 7:1-3 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

Genesis 1:24-25 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 12 helpful votes
(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

Acts 15:19-21 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”

Acts 11:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. …

Luke 13:1-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

Mark 7:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,

Genesis 7:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,

Revelation 5:6-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,

Aslan International Ministry – Eat With Sinners

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Eat With Sinners

1 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 85 helpful votes
But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

Luke 15:1-32 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. …

Mark 2:16 ESV / 40 helpful votes
And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Luke 19:10 ESV / 34 helpful votes
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Luke 15:2 ESV / 33 helpful votes
And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”

Proverbs 24:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them,

Luke 5:30 ESV / 22 helpful votes
And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 7:34 ESV / 20 helpful votes
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 18 helpful votes
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. …

Matthew 9:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

1 Corinthians 5:1-13 ESV / 13 helpful votes
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. …

Matthew 11:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”

Mark 2:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Mark 2:1-28 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” …

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

Romans 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 9 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.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 8 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Ruth 1:1-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. …

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, …

Ephesians 4:1-32 ESV / 7 helpful votes
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, …

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 5:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 7 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.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 7 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 19:5-7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully. And when they saw it, they all grumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”

Luke 15:1-2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”

Luke 5:1-39 ESV / 7 helpful votes
On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” …

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

Hosea 6:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Titus 1:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 6 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 1:1-29 ESV / 6 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 2:1-30 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, …

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Acts 2:38 ESV / 6 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 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Luke 7:1-50 ESV / 6 helpful votes
After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” …

Mark 2:15-22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. …

Mark 2:13-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Colossians 3:5-6 ESV / 5 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.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

1 Corinthians 15:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

1 Corinthians 10:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”

1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, …

1 Corinthians 5:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?

Romans 2:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Romans 1:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

John 6:35 ESV / 5 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.

John 6:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”

Luke 19:1-48 ESV / 5 helpful votes
He entered Jericho and was passing through. And there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small of stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” …

Luke 15:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”

Luke 15:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

Luke 15:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
So he told them this parable:

Luke 14:1-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes
One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” …

Luke 5:33-39 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. …

Mark 10:45 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 5 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 9:14-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”

Ezekiel 33:1-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman, and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. …

1 John 1:7-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

1 Peter 2:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.

1 Peter 2:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Timothy 1:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.

1 Corinthians 9:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. This is my defense to those who would examine me. Do we not have the right to eat and drink? Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? …

1 Corinthians 5:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

Romans 6:1-23 ESV / 4 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. …

John 17:1-26 ESV / 4 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. …

John 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Luke 15:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

Mark 2:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.

Mark 2:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them.

Matthew 9:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

Matthew 9:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 9:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 6:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 4 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. …

Matthew 5:46 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 4 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.’”

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 4 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.

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 4 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. …

Proverbs 28:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
And put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Aslan International Ministry – Ears

Aslan International Ministry – 

Ears

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 75 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.

Mark 4:23-24 ESV / 56 helpful votes
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.

Luke 1:44 ESV / 48 helpful votes
For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 42 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 …

Isaiah 33:15-16 ESV / 35 helpful votes
He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil, he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 34 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.

Proverbs 20:12 ESV / 33 helpful votes
The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.

Isaiah 30:21 ESV / 32 helpful votes
And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 28 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”—

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

John 8:43 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

Proverbs 25:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 24 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,

Matthew 13:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

Zechariah 7:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.

Isaiah 43:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!

Romans 12:2 ESV / 19 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.

Ezekiel 16:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

Isaiah 6:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

Proverbs 15:31 ESV / 17 helpful votes
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.

Psalm 58:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

Deuteronomy 29:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.

1 Timothy 4:1-3 ESV / 16 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, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Mark 4:23 ESV / 16 helpful votes
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Isaiah 35:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped;

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 16 helpful votes
An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Exodus 21:6 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

Revelation 3:22 ESV / 15 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”

Matthew 13:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.

Job 33:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings,

Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 15 helpful votes
You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

Matthew 13:9 ESV / 14 helpful votes
He who has ears, let him hear.”

Matthew 11:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Jeremiah 35:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, ‘Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.’ But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.

Jeremiah 7:24 ESV / 14 helpful votes
But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

Proverbs 2:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;

Job 36:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.

Revelation 2:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

Acts 7:51 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

Luke 22:51 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But Jesus said, “No more of this!” And he touched his ear and healed him.

Mark 8:18 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?

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,

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 11 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.

Mark 4:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Deuteronomy 15:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same.

Exodus 29:20 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And you shall kill the ram and take part of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet, and throw the rest of the blood against the sides of the altar.

Revelation 3:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

2 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

Luke 14:35 ESV / 10 helpful votes
It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Mark 7:35 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

Jeremiah 6:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.

Isaiah 43:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.

Psalm 40:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

Job 12:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 10 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.”

Leviticus 8:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And he killed it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Revelation 2:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’

Acts 28:27 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

Psalm 34:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.

Revelation 3:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

Revelation 2:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’

1 Corinthians 12:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
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.

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 8 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— …

Acts 7:57 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.

Luke 8:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Matthew 13:43 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

1 Samuel 1:1-28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord. On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb. …

Leviticus 14:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Revelation 2:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

Romans 6:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Mark 4:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Proverbs 5:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,

Psalm 94:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes
He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?

Psalm 18:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

1 John 5:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

1 John 5:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

2 Timothy 3:1-17 ESV / 6 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. …

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 6 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.

Matthew 6:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,

Ezekiel 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 8:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”

Isaiah 1:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Deuteronomy 14:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

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

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 5 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.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 5 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.

Acts 10:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,

Jeremiah 9:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Hear, O women, the word of the Lord, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.

Job 13:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

James 5:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

James 1:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

James 1:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Aslan International Ministry – Earrings

Aslan International Ministry – 

Earrings

Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 22 helpful votes
You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

Genesis 35:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Numbers 31:50 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And we have brought the Lord’s offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 11 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 / 10 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.

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 7 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.

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 7 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,

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 7 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,

Ezekiel 16:11-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.

Isaiah 3:16-24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet, therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; …

Deuteronomy 14:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

Exodus 32:2-3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

1 Corinthians 11:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,

Ezekiel 16:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

1 Kings 18:1-46 ESV / 4 helpful votes
After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.” So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly, and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.) And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals.” …

Judges 8:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

Exodus 35:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
So they came, both men and women. All who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the Lord.

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “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, …

1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 3 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. …

Psalm 90:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!

1 Kings 18:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.

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Early Death

Isaiah 57:1-2 ESV / 201 helpful votes
The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity; he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.

Ecclesiastes 7:17 ESV / 156 helpful votes
Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

James 1:12 ESV / 96 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.

John 3:16 ESV / 82 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 11:25-26 ESV / 61 helpful votes
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

Luke 23:43 ESV / 61 helpful votes
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

1 John 5:16-17 ESV / 57 helpful votes
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

Matthew 6:27 ESV / 57 helpful votes
And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

Psalm 139:16 ESV / 57 helpful votes
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.

Hebrews 2:9 ESV / 49 helpful votes
But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

1 Timothy 4:1-16 ESV / 47 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, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. …

Romans 14:8 ESV / 39 helpful votes
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 37 helpful votes
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Matthew 5:4 ESV / 37 helpful votes
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 35 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.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 34 helpful votes
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Isaiah 57:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes
The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;

Romans 8:31-34 ESV / 30 helpful votes
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

Romans 8:18 ESV / 29 helpful votes
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Psalm 116:15 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

2 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ecclesiastes 7:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes
A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.

Psalm 34:18 ESV / 25 helpful votes
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Revelation 14:13 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 23 helpful votes
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. …

John 14:1-3 ESV / 23 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

2 Corinthians 5:6-8 ESV / 21 helpful votes
So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 21 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. …

1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 ESV / 20 helpful votes
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:42-44 ESV / 20 helpful votes
So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

Philippians 1:23 ESV / 19 helpful votes
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.

Romans 8:35 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

Romans 5:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Revelation 20:14 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 Corinthians 15:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 17 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.

John 14:1-4 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.”

Philippians 1:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

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.

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Isaiah 25:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes
He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

Psalm 16:9-11 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Isaiah 38:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
I said, In the middle of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.

Psalm 23:1 ESV / 14 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Revelation 12:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

1 Thessalonians 4:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

Philippians 1:23-24 ESV / 13 helpful votes
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.

1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

John 14:27 ESV / 13 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.

Job 22:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes
They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 12 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.”

Revelation 1:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

Hebrews 2:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 12 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 9:27-28 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, …

Philippians 1:21-23 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Hosea 13:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 11 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. …

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

2 Corinthians 5:1-2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling,

1 Corinthians 15:26 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

Romans 8:18-19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

Romans 8:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 10 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. …

1 Corinthians 15:55 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

Isaiah 57:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.

Psalm 48:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
That this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.

2 Kings 20:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes
In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.’”

Revelation 21:3-4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 8 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 …

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Hebrews 12:1-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. …

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 8 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.

2 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him;

1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Luke 16:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried,

Luke 1:37 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”

2 Samuel 12:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Psalm 90:8-10 ESV / 7 helpful votes
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh. The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Revelation 21:1-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” …

Revelation 20:4-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

Revelation 2:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 6 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 / 6 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, …

1 Corinthians 15:55-57 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.

Romans 5:7-8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 16:33 ESV / 6 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 5:24 ESV / 6 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.