2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
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2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
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Genesis 31:28
You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.
Genesis 31:55
And early in the morning Laban, after kissing and blessing his daughters, went on his way back to his country.
1 Kings 19:20
And letting the oxen be where they were, he came running after Elijah, and said, Only let me give a kiss to my father and mother, and then I will come after you. But he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?
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Exodus 20:17
Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.
Psalms 10:3
For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.
Proverbs 4:23
And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
Isaiah 29:13
And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
Isaiah 29:14
For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.
Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
Hosea 4:11
Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
1 Timothy 3:3
Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;
2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,
2 Timothy 4:4
And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.
2 Peter 2:3
And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.
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Deuteronomy 7:4
For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.
1 Kings 11:2
The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.
1 Kings 11:3
He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.
1 Kings 11:9
And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had twice come to him in a vision;
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Joshua 24:15
And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
Joshua 24:19
And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.
Joshua 24:20
If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.
1 Samuel 7:3
Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.
1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.
2 Kings 17:33
They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.
2 Kings 17:34
So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;
2 Kings 17:41
So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.
Ezekiel 20:39
As for you, O children of Israel, the Lord has said: Let every man completely put away his images and give ear to me: and let my holy name no longer be shamed by your offerings and your images.
Zephaniah 1:5
And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,
Matthew 4:10
Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.
Romans 6:16
Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.
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2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.
Matthew 27:3
Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority,
Mark 6:20
For Herod was in fear of John, being conscious that he was an upright and holy man, and kept him safe. And hearing him, he was much troubled; and he gave ear to him gladly.
Mark 6:26
And the king was very sad; but because of his oaths, and those who were with him at table, he would not say 'No' to her.
Acts 2:22
Men of Israel, give ear to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man who had the approval of God, as was made clear to you by the great works and signs and wonders which God did by him among you, as you yourselves have knowledge,
Acts 8:13
And Simon himself had faith and, having had baptism, he went with Philip and, seeing the signs and the great wonders which he did, he was full of surprise.
Acts 8:18
Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the touch of the Apostles' hands, he made them an offering of money, saying,
Acts 8:19
Give me this power, so that when I put my hands on anyone he may get the Holy Spirit.
Acts 8:20
But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price.
Acts 8:21
You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God.
Acts 8:22
Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.
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Nehemiah 6:11
And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.
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Job 19:28
If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
Job 27:9
Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?
Job 27:10
Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?
Matthew 12:31
So I say to you, Every sin and every evil word against God will have forgiveness; but for evil words against the Spirit there will be no forgiveness.
Mark 4:5
And some went on the stones, where it had not much earth; and it came up straight away, because the earth was not deep:
Mark 4:6
And when the sun was high, it was burned; and because it had no root, it became dry and dead.
Luke 12:10
And if anyone says a word against the Son of man, he will have forgiveness: but for him who says evil words against the Holy Spirit, there will be no forgiveness.
John 15:2
He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.
John 15:3
You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.
John 15:4
Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.
John 15:6
If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.
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Psalms 31:11
Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.
Psalms 31:12
I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.
Psalms 31:13
False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.
Mark 14:50
And they all went away from him in fear.
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1 Samuel 15:19
Why then did you not do the orders of the Lord, but by violently taking their goods did evil in the eyes of the Lord?
Proverbs 15:27
He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.
Habakkuk 2:10
You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.
Habakkuk 2:11
For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.
Habakkuk 2:12
A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!
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Isaiah 51:3
For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.
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Isaiah 52:9
Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 3:22
Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
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Hosea 14:4
I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.
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Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.
Isaiah 56:12
Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.
Ezekiel 34:2
Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?
Ezekiel 34:3
You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.
Ezekiel 34:4
You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.
Ezekiel 34:5
And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.
Ezekiel 34:6
And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.
Zechariah 11:16
For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.
Zechariah 11:17
A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.
John 10:3
The porter lets him in; and the sheep give ear to his voice; he says over the names of the sheep, and takes them out.
John 10:12
He who is a servant, and not the keeper or the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming and goes in flight, away from the sheep; and the wolf comes down on them and sends them in all directions:
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Psalms 119:37
Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.
Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.
Matthew 10:37
He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.
Matthew 19:27
Then Peter said to him, See, we have given up everything and have come after you; what then will we have?
Mark 10:21
And Jesus, looking on him and loving him, said, There is one thing needed: go, get money for your goods, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come with me.
Luke 5:11
And when they had got their boats to the land, they gave up everything and went after him.
Luke 5:28
And giving up his business, he got up and went after him.
Luke 14:27
Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple.
Luke 18:22
And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me.
John 6:67
So Jesus said to the twelve, Have you a desire to go away?
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.
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Matthew 12:43
But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of a man, goes through dry places looking for rest, and getting it not.
Matthew 12:44
Then he says, I will go back into my house from which I came out; and when he comes, he sees that there is no one in it, but that it has been made fair and clean.
Matthew 12:45
Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits worse than himself, and they go in and make it their living-place: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first. Even so will it be with this evil generation.
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Matthew 13:7
And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:
Mark 4:9
And he said to them, Whoever has ears, let him give ear.
Mark 4:18
And others are those planted among the thorns; these are they who have given ear to the word,
Mark 4:20
And these are they who were planted on the good earth; such as give ear to the word, and take it into their hearts, and give fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundred times as much.
Luke 8:7
And some went among thorns, and the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth.
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Matthew 27:24
So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible.
Matthew 27:25
And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.
Matthew 27:26
Then he let Barabbas go free: but after having Jesus whipped, he gave him up to be put to death on the cross.
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Luke 9:57
And when they were on the way, a certain man said to him, I will come after you wherever you go.
Luke 9:58
And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have resting-places, but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.
Luke 9:59
And he said to another, Come after me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.
Luke 9:60
But he said to him, Let the dead take care of their dead; it is for you to go and give news of the kingdom of God.
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Matthew 6:25
So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?
Luke 10:41
But the Lord, answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things:
Luke 12:17
And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.
Luke 12:18
And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.
Luke 12:19
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
Luke 12:21
So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.
Luke 12:29
And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts.
Luke 12:30
For the nations of the world go in search of all these things: but your Father has knowledge that you have need of them.
Luke 14:19
And another said, I have got some cattle, and I am going to make a test of them: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.
Luke 14:20
And another said, I have been married, and so I am not able to come.
Philippians 4:6
Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.
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Luke 19:3
Made an attempt to get a view of Jesus, and was not able to do so, because of the people, for he was a small man.
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Matthew 11:6
And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.
Matthew 13:57
And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family.
Matthew 26:31
Then said Jesus to them, All of you will be turned away from me this night: for it is said in the Writings, I will put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep of the flock will be put to flight.
Matthew 26:32
But after I am come back from the dead, I will go before you into Galilee.
Matthew 26:33
But Peter made answer and said to him, Though all may be turned away from you, I will never be turned away.
Matthew 26:34
Jesus said to him, Truly I say to you that this night, before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me.
John 6:60
Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?
John 6:61
When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble?
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Isaiah 43:22
But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.
John 15:5
I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.
John 15:7
If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.
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Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.
John 7:7
It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.
John 8:23
And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.
John 14:30
After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me;
John 15:19
If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.
John 17:14
I have given your word to them; and they are hated by the world, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Ephesians 1:21
Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come:
Hebrews 2:5
For he did not make the angels rulers over the world to come, of which I am writing.
1 John 5:19
We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.
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Jeremiah 2:34
And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
Acts 1:16
My brothers, the word of God had to be put into effect, which the Holy Spirit had said before, by the mouth of David, about Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus,
Acts 1:17
For he was numbered among us, and had his part in our work.
Acts 1:18
(Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.
Acts 1:19
And this came to the knowledge of all those who were living in Jerusalem, so that the field was named in their language, Akel-dama, or, The field of blood.)
Acts 1:20
For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another.
Acts 5:6
And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth.
Acts 5:7
And about three hours after, his wife, having no knowledge of what had taken place, came in.
Acts 5:8
And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she said, Yes, it was.
Acts 5:9
But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord? See, the feet of the young men who have put the body of your husband in the earth, are at the door, and they will take you out.
Acts 5:10
And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.
2 Timothy 4:15
But be on the watch for him, for he was violent in his attacks on our teaching.
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Acts 5:11
Then great fear came on all the church and on all who had knowledge of these things.
1 Timothy 5:24
The sins of some men are clearly seen, going before them to be judged; but with others, their sins go after them.
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Acts 13:50
But the Jews, working up the feelings of the God-fearing women of high position and of the chief men of the town, got an attack started against Paul and Barnabas, driving them out of those parts.
Acts 14:5
And when a violent attempt was made by the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, to make an attack on them and have them stoned,
Acts 14:6
Having got news of it, they went in flight to the towns of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and the country round about:
Acts 14:19
But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.
Acts 17:13
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had news that Paul was preaching the word at Beroea, they came there, troubling the people and working them up.
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Acts 16:1
And he came to Derbe and Lystra: and there was a certain disciple there named Timothy, whose mother was one of the Jews of the faith, but his father was a Greek;
Acts 16:2
Of whom the brothers at Lystra and Iconium had a high opinion.
Acts 17:15
But those who went with Paul took him as far as Athens, and then went away, with orders from him to Silas and Timothy to come to him quickly.
Acts 18:5
And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was completely given up to the word, preaching to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
Acts 19:22
And having sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, into Macedonia, he himself went on living in Asia for a time.
Acts 20:4
And Sopater of Beroea, the son of Pyrrhus, and Aristarchus and Secundus of Thessalonica, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia, went with him as far as Asia.
Colossians 1:1
Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the purpose of God, and Timothy our brother,
1 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.
1 Thessalonians 3:1
At last our desire to have news of you was so strong that, while we ourselves were waiting at Athens,
2 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Timothy 4:20
Erastus was stopping at Corinth; but Trophimus, when I last saw him was at Miletus, ill.
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Romans 6:17
But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
Romans 6:18
And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
Romans 6:19
I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
Romans 6:20
When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.
Romans 6:21
What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
Romans 6:22
But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.
Galatians 1:10
Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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Romans 16:14
Give my love to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.
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Jeremiah 45:5
And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.
Daniel 7:12
As for the rest of the beasts, their authority was taken away: but they let them go on living for a measure of time.
Matthew 19:28
And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that in the time when all things are made new, and the Son of man is seated in his glory, you who have come after me will be seated on twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Mark 10:23
And Jesus, looking round about, said to his disciples, How hard it is for those who have wealth to come into the kingdom of God!
Luke 18:25
It is simpler for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a man who has much money to come into the kingdom of God.
Luke 18:28
And Peter said, See, we have given up what is ours to come after you.
Luke 18:29
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,
Luke 18:30
Who will not get much more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.
1 Corinthians 7:31
And for those who make use of the world, not to be using it fully; for this world's way of life will quickly come to an end.
Philippians 3:7
But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ.
Philippians 3:8
Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,
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1 Corinthians 12:9
To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit;
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1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.
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2 Corinthians 8:17
For while he gladly gave ear to our request, he was interested enough to go to you from the impulse of his heart.
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2 Corinthians 1:11
You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.
2 Corinthians 1:14
Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Philippians 1:6
For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:
Philippians 1:9
And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;
Philippians 1:24
Still, to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you.
Philippians 4:10
But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it.
1 Thessalonians 3:10
Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.
1 Thessalonians 3:11
Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you;
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Luke 13:30
And the last will be first, and the first will be last.
1 Corinthians 9:25
And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown.
1 Corinthians 9:26
So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:
1 Corinthians 9:27
But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.
Galatians 2:2
And I went up by revelation; and I put before them the good news which I was preaching among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were of good name, so that the work which I was or had been doing might not be without effect.
Philippians 3:13
Brothers, it is clear to me that I have not come to that knowledge; but one thing I do, letting go those things which are past, and stretching out to the things which are before,
1 Timothy 6:12
Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.
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Psalms 78:9
The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.
Acts 15:37
And Barnabas had a desire to take with them John, named Mark.
Galatians 3:1
O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?
Philippians 3:18
For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;
Philippians 3:19
Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
1 Timothy 1:6
From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;
1 Timothy 5:6
But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.
2 Timothy 3:3
Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,
2 Timothy 3:13
Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.
Hebrews 12:15
Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;
2 Peter 2:2
And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.
Jude 1:11
A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.
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Jeremiah 23:10
For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.
1 Corinthians 5:10
But I had not in mind the sinners who are outside the church, or those who have a desire for and take the property of others, or those who give worship to images; for it is not possible to keep away from such people without going out of the world completely:
1 Corinthians 6:3
Is it not certain that we are to be the judges of angels? how much more then of the things of this life?
1 Corinthians 6:4
If then there are questions to be judged in connection with the things of this life, why do you put them in the hands of those who have no position in the church?
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,
Galatians 5:20
Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,
Galatians 5:21
Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.
Colossians 3:5
Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;
Colossians 4:11
And Jesus, whose other name is Justus; these are of the circumcision: they are my only brother-workers for the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me.
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Psalms 78:8
And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.
Hosea 8:2
They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.
Matthew 13:20
And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy;
Colossians 4:15
Give my love to the brothers in Laodicea and to Nymphas and the church in their house.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,
2 Timothy 3:5
Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.
James 1:6
Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind.
James 1:8
For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.
2 Peter 3:16
And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.
Jude 1:5
Now it is my purpose to put you in mind, though you once had knowledge of all these things, of how the Lord, having taken a people safely out of Egypt, later sent destruction on those who had no faith;
Jude 1:12
These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,
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1 Timothy 2:3
This is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour;
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Luke 10:1
Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
1 Corinthians 16:1
Now about the giving of money for the saints, as I gave orders to the churches of Galatia, so do you.
2 Corinthians 6:11
Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is wide.
Colossians 4:17
Say to Archippus, See that you do the work which the Lord has given you to do.
2 Thessalonians 2:15
So then, brothers, be strong in purpose, and keep the teaching which has been given to you by word or by letter from us.
1 Timothy 1:18
This order I give to you, Timothy my son, in harmony with the words of the prophets about you, so that by them you may be strong, fighting the good fight,
1 Timothy 1:19
Keeping faith, and being conscious of well-doing; for some, by not doing these things, have gone wrong in relation to the faith:
2 Timothy 2:13
If we are without faith, still he keeps faith, for he will never be untrue to himself.
Titus 1:5
I did not take you with me when I went away from Crete, so that you might do what was necessary to put things in order there, placing men in authority over the churches in every town, as I said to you;
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1 John 3:1
See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.
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2 Timothy 3:14
But see that you keep to the teaching you have been given and the things of which you are certain, conscious of who has been your teacher;
2 Timothy 3:15
And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:16
Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:
2 Timothy 3:17
So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
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Job 34:27
Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,
Psalms 14:3
They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.
Psalms 36:3
In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.
Psalms 125:5
But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.
Proverbs 2:13
Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;
Proverbs 21:16
The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
Ezekiel 18:26
When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.
Ezekiel 33:12
And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil.
Ezekiel 33:13
When I say to the upright that life will certainly be his; if he puts his faith in his righteousness and does evil, not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory; but in the evil he has done, death will overtake him.
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.
Hebrews 10:38
But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.
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Hebrews 3:14
For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;
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Ezekiel 9:4
The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.
Malachi 1:10
If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.
John 5:40
And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.
John 5:44
How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
1 Corinthians 10:12
So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.
Colossians 1:24
Now I have joy in my pain because of you, and in my flesh I undergo whatever is still needed to make the sorrows of Christ complete, for the salvation of his body, the church;
2 Thessalonians 2:2
That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;
1 Timothy 3:8
Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;
2 Timothy 1:8
Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God;
2 Timothy 4:2
Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching;
James 2:19
You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear.
Jude 1:4
For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
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Revelation 2:14
But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.
Revelation 2:15
And you have those who keep the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
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Revelation 14:8
And a second angel came after, saying, Destruction has come to Babylon the great, which gave to all the nations the wine of the wrath of her evil ways.
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