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Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 204 helpful votes
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Luke 12:7 ESV / 166 helpful votes
Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Psalm 139:14 ESV / 145 helpful votes
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
John 3:16 ESV / 126 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.
Genesis 1:26 ESV / 121 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.”
Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 114 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Romans 5:8 ESV / 111 helpful votes
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Isaiah 43:4 ESV / 110 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.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 96 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Psalm 139:15 ESV / 93 helpful votes
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 91 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.
Matthew 10:29-31 ESV / 78 helpful votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
John 14:14 ESV / 75 helpful votes
If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 70 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Genesis 2:7 ESV / 67 helpful votes
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 65 helpful votes
For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 64 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. …
Colossians 3:17 ESV / 59 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.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 56 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.
Matthew 18:20 ESV / 55 helpful votes
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 51 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
John 15:5-6 ESV / 51 helpful votes
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 50 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.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 50 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 8:1-39 ESV / 49 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. …
Psalm 139:13 ESV / 48 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:1 ESV / 43 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
Genesis 1:27 ESV / 43 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 42 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.
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 41 helpful votes
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
John 1:14 ESV / 40 helpful votes
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 39 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 36 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
John 3:16-17 ESV / 36 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.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 36 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 35 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 35 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
John 14:6 ESV / 35 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.
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 35 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 34 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 …
James 1:2-4 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Psalm 135:4 ESV / 33 helpful votes
For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.
Exodus 19:5 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 32 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 31 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Romans 8:32 ESV / 31 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?
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 30 helpful votes
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Romans 8:34 ESV / 30 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.
Deuteronomy 7:6 ESV / 30 helpful votes
“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Philippians 4:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 29 helpful votes
The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. …
Psalm 8:4-8 ESV / 29 helpful votes
What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
John 6:44 ESV / 28 helpful votes
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
Deuteronomy 14:2 ESV / 28 helpful votes
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.
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Psalm 139:13-14 ESV / 27 helpful votes
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 27 helpful votes
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Titus 2:14 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Galatians 6:7 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Psalm 113:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!
Psalm 34:8 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
1 Peter 2:9-10 ESV / 25 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. 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 1:13-16 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Hebrews 10:19-23 ESV / 25 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 4:16-18 ESV / 25 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.
1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
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.
Exodus 19:5-6 ESV / 24 helpful votes
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
Revelation 19:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready;
Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes
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.
Hebrews 9:24 ESV / 23 helpful votes
For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
Hebrews 4:14-16 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 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. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
2 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV / 22 helpful votes
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:37 ESV / 22 helpful votes
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Romans 8:28-29 ESV / 22 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.
2 Timothy 2:19-21 ESV / 21 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.” Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Ephesians 2:1-7 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— …
Galatians 6:16 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
Galatians 1:15-16 ESV / 21 helpful votes
But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;
Romans 8:1 ESV / 21 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
John 17:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
John 17:14-18 ESV / 21 helpful votes
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
John 1:10 ESV / 20 helpful votes
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
1 John 4:4 ESV / 19 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.
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Romans 8:9 ESV / 19 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.
John 17:11 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
John 6:65 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”
Psalm 8:4 ESV / 19 helpful votes
What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
Deuteronomy 7:11 ESV / 19 helpful votes
You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
Luke 1:76 ESV / 18 helpful votes
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
Malachi 3:16-17 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name. “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
Amos 3:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Isaiah 43:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.
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