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Matthew 5:16 ESV / 403 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.
Acts 1:8 ESV / 312 helpful votes
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 243 helpful votes
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
Acts 22:15 ESV / 210 helpful votes
For you will be a witness for him to everyone of what you have seen and heard.
Matthew 28:19 ESV / 144 helpful votes
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Isaiah 43:10 ESV / 141 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.
2 Timothy 2:1-3 ESV / 105 helpful votes
You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
Acts 4:20 ESV / 95 helpful votes
For we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”
Proverbs 14:25 ESV / 81 helpful votes
A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.
Matthew 5:15 ESV / 71 helpful votes
Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.
Matthew 5:13 ESV / 67 helpful votes
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.
Acts 10:42 ESV / 66 helpful votes
And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 65 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, …
Philippians 2:15 ESV / 62 helpful votes
That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
Romans 12:1 ESV / 57 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 47 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 45 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. …
John 8:32 ESV / 40 helpful votes
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Romans 10:14-15 ESV / 39 helpful votes
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
Deuteronomy 19:15 ESV / 38 helpful votes
“A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.
Romans 1:16 ESV / 37 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.
2 Timothy 1:12 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.
John 5:39 ESV / 35 helpful votes
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
Philippians 2:1-15 ESV / 33 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, …
John 3:16 ESV / 33 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 33 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.”
Mark 16:15 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Exodus 20:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Psalm 119:105 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 26 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. …
Acts 2:37-42 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” 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.” And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.” So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. …
Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Exodus 23:1 ESV / 26 helpful votes
“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.
John 17:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes
And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Luke 1:1-4 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.
2 Timothy 1:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God,
2 Corinthians 4:5-6 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Acts 5:32 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Luke 24:49 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
Acts 8:26-40 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” …
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
John 15:16 ESV / 21 helpful votes
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
John 12:32 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
John 15:8 ESV / 20 helpful votes
By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
Mark 5:19 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”
John 1:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 18 helpful votes
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: …
Acts 5:42 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
John 3:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 17 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. …
Matthew 5:14-16 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Isaiah 43:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes
I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and I am God.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 16 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …
Romans 10:15 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
Proverbs 24:28 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Proverbs 6:19 ESV / 16 helpful votes
A false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 15 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.
James 4:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 15 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Leviticus 5:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity;
Revelation 20:4 ESV / 14 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.
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Proverbs 14:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes
A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.
1 Timothy 5:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
Matthew 24:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Numbers 35:30 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
1 Peter 1:1-25 ESV / 12 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. …
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Acts 4:33 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.
Psalm 27:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— …
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Romans 10:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Luke 24:46-48 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
Luke 12:8-9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God, but the one who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
Proverbs 25:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.
Proverbs 19:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.
Proverbs 12:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.
Joshua 24:27 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.”
1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
Acts 23:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.”
Acts 19:1-7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.” And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. …
Matthew 19:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,
Matthew 4:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Deuteronomy 17:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes
On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 9 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,
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, …
Romans 13:1-14 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. …
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Acts 6:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,
Acts 4:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
John 20:21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
John 14:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Mark 16:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]
Revelation 1:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
Acts 1:1-26 ESV / 7 helpful votes
In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” …
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